[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] pdump: fix possible mbuf leak

Ilya V. Matveychikov matvejchikov at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 14:55:16 CET 2017


If pdump_pktmbuf_copy_data() fails it's possible to have segment leak
as rte_pktmbuf_free() only handles m_dup chain but not the seg just
allocated and yet not chained.

Fixes: 278f945402c5 ("pdump: add new library for packet capture")
Cc: reshma.pattan at intel.com

Signed-off-by: Ilya V. Matveychikov <matvejchikov at gmail.com>
---
 lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c b/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c
index e6182d35c..fec49b525 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c
@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ pdump_pktmbuf_copy(struct rte_mbuf *m, struct rte_mempool *mp)
 	do {
 		nseg++;
 		if (pdump_pktmbuf_copy_data(seg, m) < 0) {
+			if (seg != m_dup)
+				rte_pktmbuf_free_seg(seg);
 			rte_pktmbuf_free(m_dup);
 			return NULL;
 		}
-- 
2.14.2



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