[v2,3/3] net/iavf: set pointer to NULL after free

Message ID fd3a766272a29fdc1504ddfc2869fcf2a784a0be.1644927269.git.wangyunjian@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
Headers
Series fixes for ixgbe/txgbe/iavf |

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Commit Message

Yunjian Wang Feb. 15, 2022, 1:02 p.m. UTC
  When iavf_security_ctx_destroy() is cleaning up, it does not correctly
set the security_ctx variable to NULL, which will lead to wild pointer.

Fixes: 6bc987ecb860 ("net/iavf: support IPsec inline crypto")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c
index 6ac1b213db..a63e42f29a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c
+++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ipsec_crypto.c
@@ -1553,8 +1553,8 @@  iavf_security_ctx_destroy(struct iavf_adapter *adapter)
 	rte_free(iavf_sctx);
 	rte_free(sctx);
 
-	iavf_sctx = NULL;
-	sctx = NULL;
+	adapter->security_ctx = NULL;
+	adapter->vf.eth_dev->security_ctx = NULL;
 
 	return 0;
 }