example/ip_pipeline: fix config file parsing defect

Coverity issue: 120143

Fixes: 7f64b9c004aa ("examples/ip_pipeline: rework config file syntax")

Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>

diff --git a/examples/ip_pipeline/config_parse.c b/examples/ip_pipeline/config_parse.c
index 6aaca11..67e58c9 100644 (file)
--- a/examples/ip_pipeline/config_parse.c
+++ b/examples/ip_pipeline/config_parse.c
@@ -1930,7 +1930,11 @@ app_config_parse(struct app_params *app, const char *file_name)
        APP_CHECK(cfg != NULL, "Unable to load config file %s", file_name);
 
        sect_count = rte_cfgfile_num_sections(cfg, NULL, 0);
+       APP_CHECK(sect_count > 0, "Number of sections return %d", sect_count);
+
        section_names = malloc(sect_count * sizeof(char *));
+       APP_CHECK(section_names != NULL, "Failed to allocate memory");
+
        for (i = 0; i < sect_count; i++)
                section_names[i] = malloc(CFG_NAME_LEN);