[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: fix leak and errno on pool creation error

Olivier Matz olivier.matz at 6wind.com
Mon Sep 19 14:34:41 CEST 2016


On error, the mempool object has to be freed, and rte_errno should be a
positive value.

Fixes: 152ca517900b ("mbuf: use default mempool handler from config")

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
---
 lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
index 80b1713..72f9280 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
+++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
@@ -173,10 +173,12 @@ rte_pktmbuf_pool_create(const char *name, unsigned n,
 	if (mp == NULL)
 		return NULL;
 
-	rte_errno = rte_mempool_set_ops_byname(mp,
-			RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_OPS, NULL);
-	if (rte_errno != 0) {
+	ret = rte_mempool_set_ops_byname(mp,
+		RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_OPS, NULL);
+	if (ret != 0) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, MBUF, "error setting mempool handler\n");
+		rte_mempool_free(mp);
+		rte_errno = -ret;
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	rte_pktmbuf_pool_init(mp, &mbp_priv);
-- 
2.8.1



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