[PATCH] app/testpmd: fix memory leak in port flow configure

Shani Peretz shperetz at nvidia.com
Tue Mar 24 09:10:44 CET 2026


When "flow configure" is issued multiple times on the same port,
port_flow_configure() allocates a new job_list via calloc() without
freeing the previous allocation, leaking it. The old pointer is
simply overwritten.

  testpmd> flow configure 0 queues_number 10 queues_size 256 ...
  testpmd> flow configure 0 queues_number 10 queues_size 256 ...

The patch fixes this by freeing the existing job_list before allocating
the replacement.

Fixes: df503d757b36 ("app/testpmd: fix flow queue job leaks")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com>
---
 app/test-pmd/config.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/app/test-pmd/config.c b/app/test-pmd/config.c
index f9f3c542a6..f0a784bf2f 100644
--- a/app/test-pmd/config.c
+++ b/app/test-pmd/config.c
@@ -1836,6 +1836,7 @@ port_flow_configure(portid_t port_id,
 	port->queue_sz = queue_attr->size;
 	for (std_queue = 0; std_queue < nb_queue; std_queue++)
 		attr_list[std_queue] = queue_attr;
+	free(port->job_list);
 	port->job_list = calloc(nb_queue, sizeof(*port->job_list));
 	if (port->job_list == NULL) {
 		TESTPMD_LOG(ERR, "Failed to allocate memory for operations tracking on port %u\n",
-- 
2.34.1



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