[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_metrics: fix memory leak

Honnappa Nagarahalli Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com
Fri Jul 31 06:54:26 CEST 2020


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Hi Gaurav,
	One comment inline.

> 
> Fix memory leak for sequential allocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_metrics/rte_metrics_telemetry.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_metrics/rte_metrics_telemetry.c
> b/lib/librte_metrics/rte_metrics_telemetry.c
> index 289ebae0b..55c2b8478 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_metrics/rte_metrics_telemetry.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_metrics/rte_metrics_telemetry.c
> @@ -167,9 +167,15 @@ rte_metrics_tel_format_port(uint32_t pid, json_t
> *ports,
>  	}
> 
>  	metrics = malloc(sizeof(struct rte_metric_value) * num_metrics);
> +	if (metrics == NULL) {
> +		METRICS_LOG_ERR("Cannot allocate memory");
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
> +
>  	names = malloc(sizeof(struct rte_metric_name) * num_metrics);
> -	if (metrics == NULL || names == NULL) {
> +	if (names == NULL) {
>  		METRICS_LOG_ERR("Cannot allocate memory");
> +		free(metrics);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
There is a similar error in function 'rte_metrics_tel_reg_port_ethdev_to_metrics', can you fix that as well?

> 
> --
> 2.17.1



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