[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v5 2/2] net/tap: fix ipc related memory leak

Herakliusz Lipiec herakliusz.lipiec at intel.com
Fri May 3 12:28:57 CEST 2019


When sending synchronous IPC requests, the caller must free the response
buffer if the request was successful and reply is no longer needed.
Fix the code to correctly use the IPC API.

Bugzilla ID: 228
Fixes: c9aa56edec8e ("net/tap: access primary process queues from secondary")
Cc: rasland at mellanox.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lipiec at intel.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
index 7f74b5dc9..f8a4169c5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
@@ -2118,7 +2118,7 @@ tap_mp_attach_queues(const char *port_name, struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 		process_private->rxq_fds[queue] = reply->fds[fd_iterator++];
 	for (queue = 0; queue < reply_param->txq_count; queue++)
 		process_private->txq_fds[queue] = reply->fds[fd_iterator++];
-
+	free(reply);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.2



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