On 3/9/2026 2:28 PM, Ciara Loftus wrote:
When a RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_RAW item is used with a non-zero length
and a NULL pattern pointer in either the spec or mask, a segfault
occurs as the pattern bytes are accessed unconditionally in a loop.
Add NULL checks for both spec->pattern and mask->pattern before entering
the loop that uses those fields.

Bugzilla ID: 1155
Fixes: 6ced3dd72f5f ("net/i40e: support flexible payload parsing for FDIR")
Cc: [email protected]

Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <[email protected]>
---
  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c 
b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c
index 2374b9bbca..6ad3013573 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c
@@ -2350,6 +2350,24 @@ i40e_flow_parse_fdir_pattern(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                                return -rte_errno;
                        }
+ if (raw_spec->length != 0) {
+                               if (raw_spec->pattern == NULL) {
+                                       rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
+                                                          
RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ITEM,
+                                                          item,
+                                                          "NULL RAW spec 
pattern");
+                                       return -rte_errno;
+                               }
+
+                               if (raw_mask->pattern == NULL) {
+                                       rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
+                                                          
RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ITEM,
+                                                          item,
+                                                          "NULL RAW mask 
pattern");
+                                       return -rte_errno;
+                               }
+                       }
+
                        for (i = 0; i < raw_spec->length; i++) {
                                j = i + next_dst_off;
                                if (j >= RTE_ETH_FDIR_MAX_FLEXLEN ||

Maybe also check if raw_mask length matches raw_spec?

Otherwise,

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <[email protected]>

--
Thanks,
Anatoly

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