[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx4: fix minor resource leak during init

Shahaf Shuler shahafs at mellanox.com
Sun Jun 17 10:05:28 CEST 2018


Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:37 PM, Adrien Mazarguil:
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx4: fix minor resource leak during init
> 
> Temporary IB device context and list are not freed in case of a successful
> initialization of the device.
> 
> This issue is caused by the two following commits, the first of which causes
> initialization to return early, while the second one goes a bit overboard while
> switching to negative errno values; an internal variable
> (err) is needed to tell success from failure at the end of the function since
> rte_errno is not reliable enough.
> 
> Fixes: f2318196c71a ("net/mlx4: remove limitation on number of instances")
> Fixes: 9d14b27308a0 ("net/mlx4: standardize on negative errno values")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>

Series applied to next-net-mlx, thanks. 



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