[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] efd: fix tailq entry leak in error path

Wang, Yipeng1 yipeng1.wang at intel.com
Tue Oct 20 22:24:28 CEST 2020


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 7:11 AM
> To: Marohn, Byron <byron.marohn at intel.com>; Wang, Yipeng1
> <yipeng1.wang at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; jerry.lilijun at huawei.com; xudingke at huawei.com; Yunjian
> Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>; stable at dpdk.org; wangyunjian
> <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] efd: fix tailq entry leak in error path
> 
> Byron, Yipeng,
> Please could you review?
> Thanks
> 
> 29/09/2020 05:31, wangyunjian:
> > From: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> >
> > In rte_efd_create() allocated memory for tailq entry, we should free
> > it when error happens, otherwise it will lead to memory leak.
> >
> > Fixes: 56b6ef874f80 ("efd: new Elastic Flow Distributor library")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_efd/rte_efd.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_efd/rte_efd.c b/lib/librte_efd/rte_efd.c index
> > 6a799556d..0aa120f48 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_efd/rte_efd.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_efd/rte_efd.c
> > @@ -707,6 +707,7 @@ rte_efd_create(const char *name, uint32_t
> > max_num_rules, uint32_t key_len,
> >
> >  error_unlock_exit:
> >  	rte_mcfg_tailq_write_unlock();
> > +	rte_free(te);
> >  	rte_efd_free(table);
> >
> >  	return NULL;
> >
[Wang, Yipeng] 
Thanks for the patch and sorry for the delay. The code looks good.
Acked-by: Yipeng Wang <yipeng1.wang at intel.com>


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