[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix rte_mp_request_sync() memleak on device hotplug

[Stojaczyk, Dariusz]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burakov, Anatoly
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 4:22 PM
> To: Stojaczyk, Dariusz <dariusz.stojaczyk at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix rte_mp_request_sync() memleak
> on device hotplug
> 
> <SNIP>
>
> This is correct but incomplete. There are also numerous error conditions
> which check for number of received responses to be a particular number,
> and if the number don't match, we just exit without freeing memory.
> Those errors need to free the memory as well.
> 

Yup, thanks. I pushed v2 with one extra free() in the function notifying secondary processes.
The function which notifies the primary process has a similar error check -
 - `if (mp_reply.nb_received == 1)`  - but I figured if there's more than 1 primary process
replying, then the memory leak is your smallest problem.

> --
> Thanks,
> Anatoly