[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/vhost: stop dev in close and address mem leak

Sagar Abhang sabhang at brocade.com
Fri Apr 7 02:26:37 CEST 2017


Move the call to stop the device inside the close routine because close
needs to stop the device if it isn't stopped.

Free the allocated queue buffers in close instead of doing so in remove.
Original code had these clean ups in remove which was causing memory
leak.

Signed-off-by: Sagar Abhang <sabhang at brocade.com>
---

 v2:
 - Modified the log message as requested.

 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
index 41ce5fc..b6fc94a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
@@ -791,11 +791,14 @@ eth_dev_close(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 {
 	struct pmd_internal *internal;
 	struct internal_list *list;
+	unsigned int i;
 
 	internal = dev->data->dev_private;
 	if (!internal)
 		return;
 
+	eth_dev_stop(dev);
+
 	rte_vhost_driver_unregister(internal->iface_name);
 
 	list = find_internal_resource(internal->iface_name);
@@ -807,9 +810,17 @@ eth_dev_close(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	pthread_mutex_unlock(&internal_list_lock);
 	rte_free(list);
 
+	for (i = 0; i < dev->data->nb_rx_queues; i++)
+		rte_free(dev->data->rx_queues[i]);
+	for (i = 0; i < dev->data->nb_tx_queues; i++)
+		rte_free(dev->data->tx_queues[i]);
+
+	rte_free(dev->data->mac_addrs);
 	free(internal->dev_name);
 	free(internal->iface_name);
 	rte_free(internal);
+
+	dev->data->dev_private = NULL;
 }
 
 static int
@@ -1198,7 +1209,6 @@ static int
 rte_pmd_vhost_remove(const char *name)
 {
 	struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev = NULL;
-	unsigned int i;
 
 	RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "Un-Initializing pmd_vhost for %s\n", name);
 
@@ -1207,19 +1217,11 @@ rte_pmd_vhost_remove(const char *name)
 	if (eth_dev == NULL)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	eth_dev_stop(eth_dev);
-
 	eth_dev_close(eth_dev);
 
 	rte_free(vring_states[eth_dev->data->port_id]);
 	vring_states[eth_dev->data->port_id] = NULL;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < eth_dev->data->nb_rx_queues; i++)
-		rte_free(eth_dev->data->rx_queues[i]);
-	for (i = 0; i < eth_dev->data->nb_tx_queues; i++)
-		rte_free(eth_dev->data->tx_queues[i]);
-
-	rte_free(eth_dev->data->mac_addrs);
 	rte_free(eth_dev->data);
 
 	rte_eth_dev_release_port(eth_dev);
-- 
2.1.4



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