[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/8] net/failsafe: fix invalid free

Matan Azrad matan at mellanox.com
Thu Jan 18 11:01:42 CET 2018


From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>

rte_free() is not supposed to work with pointers returned by calloc().

Fixes: a0194d828100 ("net/failsafe: add flexible device definition")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Cc: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>

Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>
---
 drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c
index cfc83e3..ec63ac9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c
+++ b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ typedef int (parse_cb)(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, const char *params,
 	uint8_t i;
 
 	FOREACH_SUBDEV(sdev, i, dev) {
-		rte_free(sdev->cmdline);
+		free(sdev->cmdline);
 		sdev->cmdline = NULL;
 		free(sdev->devargs.args);
 		sdev->devargs.args = NULL;
-- 
1.8.3.1



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