[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] ipc: fix rte_mp_request_sync memleak

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 17-Apr-19 3:38 PM, Herakliusz Lipiec wrote:
> When sending multiple requests, rte_mp_request_sync
> can succeed sending a few of those requests, but then
> fail on a later one and in the end return with rc=-1.
> The upper layers - e.g. device hotplug - currently
> handles this case as if no messages were sent and no
> memory for response buffers was allocated, which is
> not true. Fixed by always initializing message buffer
> to NULL.
> 
> Fixes: 783b6e54971d ("eal: add synchronous multi-process communication")
> Cc: jianfeng.tan at intel.com
> Cc: jia.quo at intel.com
> Cc: gi.z.zhang at intel.com
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Also, Qi Zhang's email is wrong. Please don't write anything out 
manually, copy-paste is your friend :)


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Thanks,
Anatoly