[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/failsafe: fix invalid free' has been queued to LTS release 17.11.1

[Yuanhan Liu]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 17.11.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 01/26/18. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From ef65a9891413b86b63c3734e083c7554c270e87b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:51:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net/failsafe: fix invalid free

[ upstream commit 9720e325f040dc536ef76606d2437d1653698a17 ]

rte_free() is not supposed to work with pointers returned by calloc().

Fixes: a0194d828100 ("net/failsafe: add flexible device definition")

Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>
---
 drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c
index cfc83e3..ec63ac9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c
+++ b/drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ failsafe_args_free(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	uint8_t i;
 
 	FOREACH_SUBDEV(sdev, i, dev) {
-		rte_free(sdev->cmdline);
+		free(sdev->cmdline);
 		sdev->cmdline = NULL;
 		free(sdev->devargs.args);
 		sdev->devargs.args = NULL;
-- 
2.7.4