[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/vmxnet3: fix memory leak when releasing queues' has been queued to stable release 17.08.1

Yuanhan Liu yliu at fridaylinux.org
Tue Nov 21 14:18:39 CET 2017


Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 17.08.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 11/24/17. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From 996c4b6128cc106b714835e0d28103bef3ae5532 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 0c37de7..715edc2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c
@@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ 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);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -223,6 +225,9 @@ vmxnet3_dev_rx_queue_release(void *rxq)
 
 		/* Release the memzone */
 		rte_memzone_free(rq->mz);
+
+		/* Release the queue */
+		rte_free(rq);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.7.4



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