[PATCH v2 3/9] trace: fix leak with regexp

Jerin Jacob jerinjacobk at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 16:21:01 CEST 2022


On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 3:14 PM David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The precompiled buffer initialised in regcomp must be freed before
> leaving rte_trace_regexp.
>
> Fixes: 84c4fae4628f ("trace: implement operation APIs")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>


> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - split patch in two, keeping only the backportable fix as patch 3,
>
> ---
>  lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace.c
> index 1b86f5d2d2..1db11e3e14 100644
> --- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace.c
> +++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_trace.c
> @@ -218,8 +218,10 @@ rte_trace_regexp(const char *regex, bool enable)
>                                 rc = rte_trace_point_disable(tp->handle);
>                         found = 1;
>                 }
> -               if (rc < 0)
> -                       return rc;
> +               if (rc < 0) {
> +                       found = 0;
> +                       break;
> +               }
>         }
>         regfree(&r);
>
> --
> 2.37.3
>


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