[PATCH 0/2] net/ice: fix memory handling issues

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 07:58:18AM +0000, Anurag Mandal wrote:
> This patch series addresses two memory handling issues in the ice PMD.
> 
> - The first one makes memory allocation and release symmetric. 
>   Several buffers obtained through ice_malloc(), ice_calloc() 
>   or ice_memdup() were released with rte_free() instead of ice_free(). 
>   Both APIs currently map to the same underlying allocator. 
>   However, mixing them is inconsistent and would break if the OS 
>   abstraction layer ever changes.
> 
> - The second one fixes an unchecked allocation in ice_tx_queue_start() 
>   which dereferences the Tx time queue context buffer returned by 
>   ice_malloc() without NULL check.
>   On allocation failure, the E830 send-on-timestamp path therefore crashes
>   instead of reporting "No Memory" error, and also the already allocated
>   txq_elem buffer gets leaked.
> 
> Anurag Mandal (2):
>   net/ice: free memory with matching allocator
>   net/ice: fix unchecked Tx time context allocation
> 
>  drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_acl_filter.c  | 10 +++++-----
>  drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf.c         |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_parent.c  |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c      | 14 +++++++-------
>  drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_fdir_filter.c | 12 ++++++------
>  drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.c        | 22 +++++++++++++---------
>  6 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
Patches applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks,
/Bruce