cfgfile: fix null pointer dereference in parsing

Function memchr() could return NULL and assign it to split[1] pointer.
Additional check and error handing is made after memchr() call.

Coverity issue: 195004
Fixes: a6a47ac9c2c9 ("cfgfile: rework load function")
Signed-off-by: Jacek Piasecki <jacekx.piasecki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Jastrzebski <michalx.k.jastrzebski@intel.com>

diff --git a/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c b/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
index 124aef5848686b94aa4a6b0fd1d079ce6f1cb9bb..80077b64480035a6776e95f262adf7ce7a9fcb22 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
+++ b/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
@@ -241,6 +241,11 @@ rte_cfgfile_load_with_params(const char *filename, int flags,
 
                        split[0] = buffer;
                        split[1] = memchr(buffer, '=', len);
+                       if (split[1] == NULL) {
+                               printf("Error line %d - no '='"
+                                       "character found\n", lineno);
+                               goto error1;
+                       }
                        *split[1] = '\0';
                        split[1]++;
 
@@ -268,7 +273,7 @@ rte_cfgfile_load_with_params(const char *filename, int flags,
                                goto error1;
 
                        _add_entry(&cfg->sections[cfg->num_sections - 1],
-                                       split[0], (split[1] ? split[1] : ""));
+                                       split[0], split[1]);
                }
        }
        fclose(f);