[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/mlx4: fix drop flow resources not freed
Shahaf Shuler
shahafs at mellanox.com
Thu Feb 1 09:40:19 CET 2018
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 5:33 PM, Adrien Mazarguil:
> Resources allocated for drop flow rules are not freed properly. This causes a
> memory leak and triggers an assertion failure on a reference counter when
> compiled in debug mode.
>
> This issue can be reproduced with testpmd by entering the following
> commands:
>
> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / end actions drop / end port start all port
> stop all port start all port stop all quit
>
> The reason is additional references are taken when re-enabling existing flow
> rules, a common occurrence when rehashing configuration.
>
> Fixes: d3a7e09234e4 ("net/mlx4: allocate drop flow resources on demand")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Reported-by: Moti Haimovsky <motih at mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
> ---
Applied to next-net-mlx, thanks.
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