[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] virtio: fix buffer leak on vlan insert
Maxime Coquelin
maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Wed Apr 17 09:56:47 CEST 2019
On 4/5/19 6:31 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The function rte_vlan_insert may allocate a new buffer for the
> vlan header and return a different mbuf than originally passed.
> In this case, the stored mbuf in txm[] array could point to wrong
> buffer.
>
> Fixes: dd856dfcb9e7 ("virtio: use any layout on Tx")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
> v2 - catch a couple more places.
> The virtio code needs some refactoring to not have 3 copies of same
> loop...
>
> drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
Applied to dpdk-next-virtio/master.
Note that I fixed the commit title so that it passes check-git-log
script.
Thanks,
Maxime
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