[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] ipc: unlock on failure
Aaron Conole
aconole at redhat.com
Mon May 6 15:22:08 CEST 2019
David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:11 PM Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Reported by Coverity.
>
> Fixes: a2a06860b8c4 ("ipc: fix memory leak on request failure")
> Cc: Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lipiec at intel.com>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Cc: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
> index d23728604..3498e6b07 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
> @@ -1005,8 +1005,10 @@ rte_mp_request_sync(struct rte_mp_msg *req, struct rte_mp_reply *reply,
> /* unlocks the mutex while waiting for response,
> * locks on receive
> */
> - if (mp_request_sync(path, req, reply, &end))
> + if (mp_request_sync(path, req, reply, &end)) {
> + pthread_mutex_unlock(&pending_requests.lock);
> goto err;
> + }
> }
> pthread_mutex_unlock(&pending_requests.lock);
> /* unlock the directory */
> --
> 2.19.1
>
> Unfortunately, I think this is more complex than this.
> We will leave a flock() pending and leak some resources from opendir().
I completely forgot about it, while double checking the mp_request_sync
You're right, we leak the dirfd, still.
Okay, I think see a better way to write this.
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