[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/2] ipc: fix possible memory leaks

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Fri May 3 12:54:50 CEST 2019


03/05/2019 12:28, Herakliusz Lipiec:
> When sending multiple requests, rte_mp_request_sync
> can succeed sending a few of those requests, but then
> fail on a later one and in the end return with rc=-1.
> The upper layers - e.g. device hotplug - currently
> handles this case as if no messages were sent and no
> memory for response buffers was allocated, which is
> not true. Fixed by always initializing message buffer
> to NULL and calling free everytime rte_mp_request_sync
> is used.
> 
> v5:
> - change prefixes in commit titles.

I already applied v4 with fixed titles, thanks




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