[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] net/softnic: fix memory leak in parsing arguments

[Thomas Monjalon]

> > From: Dapeng Yu <dapengx.yu at intel.com>
> > 
> > In function pmd_parse_args(), firmware path is duplicated from device
> > arguments as character string, but is never freed, which cause memory leak.
> > 
> > This patch changes the type of firmware member of struct pmd_params to
> > character array, to make memory resource release unnecessary, and
> > changes the type of name member to character array, to keep the
> > consistency of character string handling in struct pmd_params.
> > 
> > Fixes: 7e68bc20f8c8 ("net/softnic: restructure")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dapeng Yu <dapengx.yu at intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh at intel.com>

Applied, thanks.