[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] lib/librte_eal: fix resource leak

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Marcin Kerlin <marcinx.kerlin at intel.com> wrote:
> Fix issue reported by Coverity.
>
> Coverity ID 13295, 13296, 13303:
> Resource leak: The system resource will not be reclaimed
> and reused, reducing the future availability of the resource.
> In rte_eal_hugepage_attach: Leak of memory or pointers to system
> resources.
>
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Kerlin <marcinx.kerlin at intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> index 5b9132c..6320aa0 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> @@ -1475,13 +1475,17 @@ rte_eal_hugepage_attach(void)
>                                         "and retry running both primary "
>                                         "and secondary processes\n");
>                         }
> +
> +                       if (base_addr != MAP_FAILED)
> +                               munmap((void *)(uintptr_t)base_addr, mcfg->memseg[s].len);
> +

What is the point of this casting ?
Idem for the rest of the patch.


I can't see cleanup for previously mapped segments when mapping one fails.
Do we want this cleanup as well ?

CC Sergio.


-- 
David Marchand