[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: clean up per-socket mutex

[Jens Freimann]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Daniel Verkamp wrote:
> vsocket->conn_mutex was allocated with pthread_mutex_init() but never
> freed with pthread_mutex_destroy().  This is a potential memory leak,
> depending on how pthread_mutex_t is implemented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Verkamp <daniel.verkamp at intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_vhost/socket.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/socket.c b/lib/librte_vhost/socket.c
> index c7f99b0..9720773 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/socket.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/socket.c
> @@ -636,6 +636,7 @@ rte_vhost_driver_register(const char *path, uint64_t flags)
>  		vsocket->reconnect = !(flags & RTE_VHOST_USER_NO_RECONNECT);
>  		if (vsocket->reconnect && reconn_tid == 0) {
>  			if (vhost_user_reconnect_init() < 0) {
> +				pthread_mutex_destroy(&vsocket->conn_mutex);
>  				free(vsocket->path);
>  				free(vsocket);
>  				goto out;
> @@ -646,6 +647,7 @@ rte_vhost_driver_register(const char *path, uint64_t flags)
>  	}
>  	ret = create_unix_socket(vsocket);
>  	if (ret < 0) {
> +		pthread_mutex_destroy(&vsocket->conn_mutex);
>  		free(vsocket->path);
>  		free(vsocket);
>  		goto out;
> @@ -724,6 +726,7 @@ rte_vhost_driver_unregister(const char *path)
>  			}
>  			pthread_mutex_unlock(&vsocket->conn_mutex);
>  
> +			pthread_mutex_destroy(&vsocket->conn_mutex);

Seems like we never do it, but shouldn't we check the return value
here?

regards,
Jens