[RFC 1/3] eal/linux: do not warn when freeing interrupt source copy

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Sat Oct 17 22:35:03 CEST 2026


The interrupt source keeps a copy of the caller's handle made with
rte_intr_instance_dup(). The copy carries the caller's fd and dev_fd,
which it does not own. Freeing it on callback unregister now logs a
bogus FD leak warning.

Clear the fds in the copy before freeing it.

Fixes: d770ee9caed0 ("interrupts: warn on leaked FDs")

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c
index 4cfaeba7fe..d4752a2b03 100644
--- a/lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c
+++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c
@@ -479,6 +479,18 @@ uio_intr_enable(const struct rte_intr_handle *intr_handle)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * The source holds a copy of the caller's handle; the fds are owned
+ * by the caller, so drop them before freeing the copy.
+ */
+static void
+eal_intr_source_free_handle(struct rte_intr_source *src)
+{
+	rte_intr_fd_set(src->intr_handle, -1);
+	rte_intr_dev_fd_set(src->intr_handle, -1);
+	rte_intr_instance_free(src->intr_handle);
+}
+
 RTE_EXPORT_SYMBOL(rte_intr_callback_register)
 int
 rte_intr_callback_register(const struct rte_intr_handle *intr_handle,
@@ -666,7 +678,7 @@ rte_intr_callback_unregister(const struct rte_intr_handle *intr_handle,
 		/* all callbacks for that source are removed. */
 		if (TAILQ_EMPTY(&src->callbacks)) {
 			TAILQ_REMOVE(&intr_sources, src, next);
-			rte_intr_instance_free(src->intr_handle);
+			eal_intr_source_free_handle(src);
 			free(src);
 		}
 	}
@@ -922,7 +934,7 @@ eal_intr_source_remove_and_free(struct rte_intr_source *src)
 	}
 
 	/* Free the interrupt source */
-	rte_intr_instance_free(src->intr_handle);
+	eal_intr_source_free_handle(src);
 	free(src);
 }
 
@@ -1067,7 +1079,7 @@ eal_intr_process_interrupts(struct epoll_event *events, int nfds)
 		/* all callbacks for that source are removed. */
 		if (TAILQ_EMPTY(&src->callbacks)) {
 			TAILQ_REMOVE(&intr_sources, src, next);
-			rte_intr_instance_free(src->intr_handle);
+			eal_intr_source_free_handle(src);
 			free(src);
 		}
 
-- 
2.53.0



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