[PATCH 3/4] net/mlx5: fix incorrect buddy mempool init

Bing Zhao bingz at nvidia.com
Wed Nov 12 08:47:39 CET 2025


From: Nupur Uttarwar <nuttarwar at nvidia.com>

`buddy` was erroroneously declared as static. When multiple
threads call this routine, they set the same static variable
corrupting pool data and can cause potential double free when
releasing resources.

Fixes: b4dd7bcb0dcb ("net/mlx5/hws: add pool and buddy")

Signed-off-by: Nupur Uttarwar <nuttarwar at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_buddy.c | 1 +
 drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_pool.c  | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_buddy.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_buddy.c
index 394ca71217..abfbdf1be5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_buddy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_buddy.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ void mlx5dr_buddy_cleanup(struct mlx5dr_buddy_mem *buddy)
 
 	simple_free(buddy->num_free);
 	simple_free(buddy->bits);
+	simple_free(buddy);
 }
 
 int mlx5dr_buddy_alloc_mem(struct mlx5dr_buddy_mem *buddy, int order)
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_pool.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_pool.c
index 8e3718ac42..e383027d3e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_pool.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static struct mlx5dr_buddy_mem *
 mlx5dr_pool_buddy_get_next_buddy(struct mlx5dr_pool *pool, int idx,
 				 uint32_t order, bool *is_new_buddy)
 {
-	static struct mlx5dr_buddy_mem *buddy;
+	struct mlx5dr_buddy_mem *buddy;
 	uint32_t new_buddy_size;
 
 	buddy = pool->db.buddy_manager->buddies[idx];
@@ -271,7 +271,6 @@ static void mlx5dr_pool_buddy_db_uninit(struct mlx5dr_pool *pool)
 		buddy = pool->db.buddy_manager->buddies[i];
 		if (buddy) {
 			mlx5dr_buddy_cleanup(buddy);
-			simple_free(buddy);
 			pool->db.buddy_manager->buddies[i] = NULL;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.34.1



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