[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mem: fix undefined behavior in NUMA code

[Anatoly Burakov]

When NUMA-aware hugepages config option is set, we rely on
libnuma to tell the kernel to allocate hugepages on a specific
NUMA node. However, we allocate node mask before we check if
NUMA is available in the first place, which, according to
the manpage [1], causes undefined behaviour.

Fix by only using nodemask when we have NUMA available.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/3/numa_alloc_onnode

Bugzilla ID: 20

Fixes: 1b72605d2416 ("mem: balanced allocation of hugepages")
Cc: i.maximets at samsung.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
index dbf19499e..1a2a84a65 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ map_all_hugepages(struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl, struct hugepage_info *hpi,
 	int node_id = -1;
 	int essential_prev = 0;
 	int oldpolicy;
-	struct bitmask *oldmask = numa_allocate_nodemask();
+	struct bitmask *oldmask = NULL;
 	bool have_numa = true;
 	unsigned long maxnode = 0;
 
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ map_all_hugepages(struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl, struct hugepage_info *hpi,
 
 	if (have_numa) {
 		RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "Trying to obtain current memory policy.\n");
+		oldmask = numa_allocate_nodemask();
 		if (get_mempolicy(&oldpolicy, oldmask->maskp,
 				  oldmask->size + 1, 0, 0) < 0) {
 			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
@@ -401,8 +402,8 @@ map_all_hugepages(struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl, struct hugepage_info *hpi,
 				strerror(errno));
 			numa_set_localalloc();
 		}
+		numa_free_cpumask(oldmask);
 	}
-	numa_free_cpumask(oldmask);
 #endif
 	return i;
 }
-- 
2.17.1