[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] virtio: fix memory leak of virtqueue memzones

Jianfeng Tan jianfeng.tan at intel.com
Fri Apr 29 02:48:46 CEST 2016


Issue: When virtio was proposed in DPDK, there is no API to free memzones.
But this has changed since rte_memzone_free() has been implemented by
commit ff909fe21f0a ("mem: introduce memzone freeing").

This patch is to make sure memzones in struct virtqueue, like mz and
virtio_net_hdr_mz, are freed when queue is released or setup fails.

Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
 drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h     |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
index b3f4158..bd990ff 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
@@ -260,12 +260,18 @@ virtio_set_multiple_queues(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint16_t nb_queues)
 }
 
 void
-virtio_dev_queue_release(struct virtqueue *vq) {
+virtio_dev_queue_release(struct virtqueue *vq)
+{
 	struct virtio_hw *hw;
 
 	if (vq) {
 		hw = vq->hw;
-		hw->vtpci_ops->del_queue(hw, vq);
+		if (vq->started)
+			hw->vtpci_ops->del_queue(hw, vq);
+
+		rte_memzone_free(vq->mz);
+		if (vq->virtio_net_hdr_mz)
+			rte_memzone_free(vq->virtio_net_hdr_mz);
 
 		rte_free(vq->sw_ring);
 		rte_free(vq);
@@ -330,7 +336,7 @@ int virtio_dev_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 						 socket_id);
 		if (!vq->sw_ring) {
 			PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "Can not allocate RX soft ring");
-			rte_free(vq);
+			virtio_dev_queue_release(vq);
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 	}
@@ -358,7 +364,7 @@ int virtio_dev_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 		if (rte_errno == EEXIST)
 			mz = rte_memzone_lookup(vq_name);
 		if (mz == NULL) {
-			rte_free(vq);
+			virtio_dev_queue_release(vq);
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 	}
@@ -370,7 +376,7 @@ int virtio_dev_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	 */
 	if ((mz->phys_addr + vq->vq_ring_size - 1) >> (VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_ADDR_SHIFT + 32)) {
 		PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "vring address shouldn't be above 16TB!");
-		rte_free(vq);
+		virtio_dev_queue_release(vq);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
@@ -402,7 +408,7 @@ int virtio_dev_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 			if (rte_errno == EEXIST)
 				hdr_mz = rte_memzone_lookup(vq_name);
 			if (hdr_mz == NULL) {
-				rte_free(vq);
+				virtio_dev_queue_release(vq);
 				return -ENOMEM;
 			}
 		}
@@ -436,7 +442,7 @@ int virtio_dev_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 				vq->virtio_net_hdr_mz =
 					rte_memzone_lookup(vq_name);
 			if (vq->virtio_net_hdr_mz == NULL) {
-				rte_free(vq);
+				virtio_dev_queue_release(vq);
 				return -ENOMEM;
 			}
 		}
@@ -447,6 +453,7 @@ int virtio_dev_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 
 	hw->vtpci_ops->setup_queue(hw, vq);
 
+	vq->started = 1;
 	*pvq = vq;
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h b/drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h
index 4e9239e..83d89ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ struct virtqueue {
 
 	uint16_t	*notify_addr;
 
+	int		started;
+
 	struct vq_desc_extra {
 		void              *cookie;
 		uint16_t          ndescs;
-- 
2.1.4



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