Re: [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: Fix erroneous null pointer checks

[Jason Wang]

On 2020/8/7 上午11:37, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 2020/8/7 上午3:18, Alex Dewar wrote:
> > In alloc_inout() in net/mlx5_vnet.c, there are a few places where memory
> > is allocated to *in and *out, but only the values of in and out are
> > null-checked (i.e. there is a missing dereference). Fix this.
> >
> > Addresses-Coverity: ("CID 1496603: (REVERSE_INULL)")
> > Fixes: 1a86b377aa21 ("vdpa/mlx5: Add VDPA driver for supported mlx5 
> > devices")
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>


Colin posted something similar: [PATCH][next] vdpa/mlx5: fix memory 
allocation failure checks

And I think his fix is better since it prevent raw pointers to be freed.

Thanks