[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linuxapp: fix resource leak

[Sergio Gonzalez Monroy]

Hi,

On 11/05/2016 17:01, Daniel Mrzyglod wrote:
> Fix issue reported by Coverity.
> Coverity ID 97920
>
> munmap structure of hugepage
>
> leaked_storage: Variable hugepage going out of scope leaks the storage
> it points to.
>
> The system resource will not be reclaimed and reused, reducing the future
> availability of the resource.

I'm not really fond of this commit messages, but if no one minds them, 
so be it.

> In rte_eal_hugepage_init: Leak of memory or pointers to system resources
>
> Fixes: b6a468ad41d5 ("memory: add --socket-mem option")
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Mrzyglod <danielx.t.mrzyglod at intel.com>
> ---
>   lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> index 5b9132c..cd40cc9 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> @@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ int
>   rte_eal_hugepage_init(void)
>   {
>   	struct rte_mem_config *mcfg;
> -	struct hugepage_file *hugepage, *tmp_hp = NULL;
> +	struct hugepage_file *hugepage = NULL, *tmp_hp = NULL;
>   	struct hugepage_info used_hp[MAX_HUGEPAGE_SIZES];
>   
>   	uint64_t memory[RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES];
> @@ -1374,6 +1374,8 @@ rte_eal_hugepage_init(void)
>   
>   fail:
>   	free(tmp_hp);
> +	if (hugepage != NULL)
> +		munmap(hugepage, nr_hugefiles * sizeof(struct hugepage_file));
>   	return -1;
>   }
>   

You missed the last conditional if(...0 of the function where it returns 
directly with error value.

Looking at the code a bit, we never check for anything other than < 0 
return value, so I'd just do a 'goto fail' instead.

Sergio