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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:10:44 +0200
Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com> wrote:

> 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>

Applied to next-net