[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/3] bus/vmbus: fix leak on device scan

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 9:14 PM Long Li <longli at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > rte_device name only points at some location where the name is stored.
> > In general this storage is in the bus object or (in some buses) the devarg that
> > resulted in the rte_device object creation.
> >
> > If we won't store the name in the bus object, then we lose the ability to
> > release the name later.
> > This is probably fine as long as we never release rte_vmbus_device objects
> > which is the case atm.
> > But I don't understand why vmbus should be an exception when comparing
> > to other buses.
>
> I don’t understand why you want to put a name there if it's never used outside vmbus_scan_one().

Since you don't care about releasing rte_vmbus_device objects, I'll
rework as you suggest.


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David Marchand