[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/mlx5: fix memory leak when parsing device params' has been queued to stable release 16.11.1

[Yuanhan Liu]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 16.11.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable
yet. It will be pushed if I get no objections before 02/18/17.
So please shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From 584171a8b87d3a3ec889581f2c1ba035c054a2ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 10:24:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix memory leak when parsing device params

[ upstream commit a67323e49c47380604c0dece509ffd9b7e58cfc3 ]

in case of an error argument list is not freed.

Fixes: e72dd09b614e ("net/mlx5: add support for configuration through kvargs")

Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
index 90cc35e..cb45fd0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
@@ -330,8 +330,10 @@ mlx5_args(struct priv *priv, struct rte_devargs *devargs)
 		if (rte_kvargs_count(kvlist, params[i])) {
 			ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, params[i],
 						 mlx5_args_check, priv);
-			if (ret != 0)
+			if (ret != 0) {
+				rte_kvargs_free(kvlist);
 				return ret;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	rte_kvargs_free(kvlist);
-- 
1.9.0