[PATCH 19.11] net/nfp: fix memory leak in Rx

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Fri Nov 18 08:01:33 CET 2022


On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 3:27 PM Niklas Söderlund
<niklas.soderlund at corigine.com> wrote:
>
> From: Long Wu <long.wu at corigine.com>
>
> [ upstream commit bb340f56fcb7bac9ec04c1c1ca7a2a4f3012c848 ]

Thanks, applied.

>
> nfp_net_recv_pkts() should not return a value that less than 0 and the
> inappropriate return value in receive loop also causes the memory leak.
> Modify code to avoid return a value less than 0. Furthermore, When
> nfp_net_recv_pkts() break out from the receive loop because of packet
> problems, a rte_mbuf will not be freed and it will cause memory leak.
> Free the rte_mbuf before break out.
>
> Fixes: b812daadad0d ("nfp: add Rx and Tx")
>
> Signed-off-by: Long Wu <long.wu at corigine.com>
> Reviewed-by: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he at corigine.com>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund at corigine.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/nfp/nfp_net.c | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_net.c b/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_net.c
> index 76222ca5affd..f2fdff56636c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_net.c
> @@ -2035,8 +2035,9 @@ nfp_net_recv_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
>         struct rte_mbuf *new_mb;
>         uint16_t nb_hold;
>         uint64_t dma_addr;
> -       int avail;
> +       uint16_t avail;
>
> +       avail = 0;
>         rxq = rx_queue;
>         if (unlikely(rxq == NULL)) {
>                 /*
> @@ -2044,11 +2045,10 @@ nfp_net_recv_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
>                  * enabled. But the queue needs to be configured
>                  */
>                 RTE_LOG_DP(ERR, PMD, "RX Bad queue\n");
> -               return -EINVAL;
> +               return avail;
>         }
>
>         hw = rxq->hw;
> -       avail = 0;
>         nb_hold = 0;
>
>         while (avail < nb_pkts) {
> @@ -2114,7 +2114,8 @@ nfp_net_recv_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
>                                 hw->rx_offset,
>                                 rxq->mbuf_size - hw->rx_offset,
>                                 mb->data_len);
> -                       return -EINVAL;
> +                       rte_pktmbuf_free(mb);
> +                       break;
>                 }
>
>                 /* Filling the received mbuf with packet info */
> --
> 2.38.1
>


-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Senior Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd


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