[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/2] net/ark: fix leak on thread termination

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Tue May 11 13:33:57 CEST 2021


A terminated pthread should be joined or detached so that its associated
resources are released.

The "ark-delay-pg" thread is just used to delay some task but it is never
joined by the thread that created it.
The easiest solution is to detach the new thread.

Fixes: 727b3fe292bc ("net/ark: integrate PMD")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c b/drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c
index 28a44f7546..515bfe461c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ark/ark_pktgen.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
 
 #include <rte_string_fns.h>
 #include <rte_malloc.h>
@@ -474,6 +475,7 @@ ark_pktgen_delay_start(void *arg)
 	 * perform a blind sleep here to ensure that the external test
 	 * application has time to setup the test before we generate packets
 	 */
+	pthread_detach(pthread_self());
 	usleep(100000);
 	ark_pktgen_run(inst);
 	return NULL;
-- 
2.23.0



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