[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/virtio: fix dangling pointer on failure

Tiwei Bie tiwei.bie at intel.com
Tue Apr 16 07:19:57 CEST 2019


On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:48:18AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> When eth_virtio_dev_init() is cleaning up, it does not correctly set
> the mac_addrs variable to NULL, which will lead to a double free.
> 
> Found during unit-test fixes.
> 
> Fixes: 43d18765c027 ("net/virtio: fix memory leak on failure")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Reported-by: Michael Santana <msantana at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Reviewed-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie at intel.com>


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