Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] net/virtio: fix add pointer checking

["Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>]

On 3/21/2018 11:03 AM, zhiyong.yang@intel.com wrote:
> It is necessary to add pointer checking because in some case the
> code will cause crash. For example, the code goes here before
> memory allocation of rxvq is finished.
>
> Fixes: 7365504f77e3("net/virtio: support guest announce")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>

This fix is not related to the topic of this patch series, correct? 
Maybe next time, we can put it out of the patch series.

Reviewed-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>

Thanks,
Jianfeng

> ---
>   drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> index 884f74ad0..f377d8aa3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> @@ -1273,9 +1273,13 @@ static void
>   virtio_notify_peers(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>   {
>   	struct virtio_hw *hw = dev->data->dev_private;
> -	struct virtnet_rx *rxvq = dev->data->rx_queues[0];
> +	struct virtnet_rx *rxvq;
>   	struct rte_mbuf *rarp_mbuf;
>   
> +	if (!dev->data->rx_queues)
> +		return;
> +
> +	rxvq = dev->data->rx_queues[0];
>   	rarp_mbuf = rte_net_make_rarp_packet(rxvq->mpool,
>   			(struct ether_addr *)hw->mac_addr);
>   	if (rarp_mbuf == NULL) {