[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/vmxnet3: fix memory leak when releasing queues' has been queued to LTS release 16.11.4

luca.boccassi at gmail.com luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 17:09:49 CET 2017


Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 16.11.4

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 11/12/17. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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>From 486c87fc07f71f216ae9d2e3b4345cb3311f557a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chas Williams <chas3 at att.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 16:38:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] net/vmxnet3: fix memory leak when releasing queues

[ upstream commit aad14460a066e400c1787126972a475b93a52012 ]

At the end of the queue release, we can free the containers for the
queue objects.

Fixes: dfaff37fc46d ("vmxnet3: import new vmxnet3 poll mode driver implementation")

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas3 at att.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
---
 drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c
index 4762a4418..5ef7773b1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c
@@ -194,6 +194,8 @@ vmxnet3_dev_tx_queue_release(void *txq)
 		vmxnet3_cmd_ring_release(&tq->cmd_ring);
 		/* Release the memzone */
 		rte_memzone_free(tq->mz);
+		/* Release the queue */
+		rte_free(tq);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -214,6 +216,9 @@ vmxnet3_dev_rx_queue_release(void *rxq)
 
 		/* Release the memzone */
 		rte_memzone_free(rq->mz);
+
+		/* Release the queue */
+		rte_free(rq);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.11.0



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