[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] vhost: fix zmbufs array leak after NUMA realloc

Ilya Maximets i.maximets at samsung.com
Wed Aug 15 16:54:39 CEST 2018


'numa_realloc()' allocates 'zmbufs' even if zero copy mode
is not configured. This leads to memory leak, because array
is freed only for zero copy case.

Fixes: 2651726defb7 ("vhost: do deep copy while reallocating queue")
CC: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
---
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
index a2d4c9ffc..9aa1ce118 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
@@ -357,11 +357,13 @@ numa_realloc(struct virtio_net *dev, int index)
 		memcpy(vq, old_vq, sizeof(*vq));
 		TAILQ_INIT(&vq->zmbuf_list);
 
-		new_zmbuf = rte_malloc_socket(NULL, vq->zmbuf_size *
-			sizeof(struct zcopy_mbuf), 0, newnode);
-		if (new_zmbuf) {
-			rte_free(vq->zmbufs);
-			vq->zmbufs = new_zmbuf;
+		if (dev->dequeue_zero_copy) {
+			new_zmbuf = rte_malloc_socket(NULL, vq->zmbuf_size *
+					sizeof(struct zcopy_mbuf), 0, newnode);
+			if (new_zmbuf) {
+				rte_free(vq->zmbufs);
+				vq->zmbufs = new_zmbuf;
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (vq_is_packed(dev)) {
-- 
2.17.1



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