[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 5/8] ipc: fix pdump memleak

Herakliusz Lipiec herakliusz.lipiec at intel.com
Tue Apr 23 19:43:31 CEST 2019


When sending synchronous IPC requests, the caller must free the response 
buffer even if the request returned failure. Fix the code to correctly 
use the IPC API.

Bugzilla ID: 228
Fixes: 660098d61f57 ("pdump: use generic multi-process channel")
Cc: jianfeng.tan at intel.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lipiec at intel.com>
Acked-By: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c b/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c
index 14744b9ff..3787c3e32 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c
@@ -525,8 +525,8 @@ pdump_prepare_client_request(char *device, uint16_t queue,
 		rte_errno = resp->err_value;
 		if (!resp->err_value)
 			ret = 0;
-		free(mp_reply.msgs);
 	}
+	free(mp_reply.msgs);
 
 	if (ret < 0)
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, PDUMP,
-- 
2.17.2



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