[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] eal: fix resource leak of mapped memory

Sergio Gonzalez Monroy sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com
Wed Jun 15 10:49:04 CEST 2016


Hi Marcin,

On 14/06/2016 16:33, Marcin Kerlin wrote:
> Patch fixes resource leak in rte_eal_hugepage_attach() where mapped files
> were not freed back to the OS in case of failure. Patch uses the behavior
> of Linux munmap: "It is not an error if the indicated range does not
> contain any mapped pages".
>
> Coverity issue: 13295, 13296, 13303
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Kerlin <marcinx.kerlin at intel.com>
> ---
>   lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 11 +++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> index 79d1d2d..1834fa0 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> @@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ rte_eal_hugepage_attach(void)
>   	if (internal_config.xen_dom0_support) {
>   #ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_XEN_DOM0
>   		if (rte_xen_dom0_memory_attach() < 0) {
> -			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,"Failed to attach memory setments of primay "
> +			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Failed to attach memory segments of primary "
>   					"process\n");

If you want to fix spelling of error message it probably should go in a 
different patch.

>   			return -1;
>   		}
> @@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ rte_eal_hugepage_attach(void)
>   
>   	size = getFileSize(fd_hugepage);
>   	hp = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd_hugepage, 0);
> -	if (hp == NULL) {
> +	if (hp == MAP_FAILED) {
>   		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Could not mmap %s\n", eal_hugepage_info_path());
>   		goto error;
>   	}
> @@ -1551,6 +1551,13 @@ rte_eal_hugepage_attach(void)
>   	return 0;
>   
>   error:
> +	s = 0;
> +	while (s < RTE_MAX_MEMSEG && mcfg->memseg[s].len > 0) {
> +		munmap(mcfg->memseg[s].addr, mcfg->memseg[s].len);
> +		s++;
> +	}
> +	if (hp != NULL && hp != MAP_FAILED)
> +		munmap((void *)(uintptr_t)hp, size);

No need for double casting, nor to cast to (void *).

Sergio

>   	if (fd_zero >= 0)
>   		close(fd_zero);
>   	if (fd_hugepage >= 0)




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