[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/8] ipc: fix net/mlx5 memleak

[Herakliusz Lipiec]

When sending multiple requests, rte_mp_request_sync
can succeed sending a few of those requests, but then
fail on a later one and in the end return with rc=-1.
The upper layers - e.g. device hotplug - currently
handles this case as if no messages were sent and no
memory for response buffers was allocated, which is
not true. Fixed by always freeing reply message buffers.

Fixes: 9a8ab29b84d3 ("net/mlx5: replace IPC socket with EAL API")
Fixes: c18cf501a7af ("net/mlx5: enable secondary process to register DMA memory")
Cc: yskoh at mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lipiec at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mp.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mp.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mp.c
index cea74adb6..c9915b1d5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mp.c
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ mlx5_mp_req_mr_create(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uintptr_t addr)
 	if (ret) {
 		DRV_LOG(ERR, "port %u request to primary process failed",
 			dev->data->port_id);
+		free(mp_rep.msgs);
 		return -rte_errno;
 	}
 	assert(mp_rep.nb_received == 1);
@@ -295,7 +296,8 @@ mlx5_mp_req_verbs_cmd_fd(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	if (ret) {
 		DRV_LOG(ERR, "port %u request to primary process failed",
 			dev->data->port_id);
-		return -rte_errno;
+		ret = -rte_errno;
+		goto exit;
 	}
 	assert(mp_rep.nb_received == 1);
 	mp_res = &mp_rep.msgs[0];
-- 
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