[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] vhost: fix fd leak in kick setup

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Mon Nov 9 13:16:30 CET 2020


This patch fixes a file descriptor leak which happens
in the error path of vhost_user_set_vring_kick().

Fixes: 4796ad63ba1f ("examples/vhost: import userspace vhost application")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
index 94b066f0b9..f3b2adabac 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c
@@ -1855,8 +1855,12 @@ vhost_user_set_vring_kick(struct virtio_net **pdev, struct VhostUserMsg *msg,
 
 	/* Interpret ring addresses only when ring is started. */
 	dev = translate_ring_addresses(dev, file.index);
-	if (!dev)
+	if (!dev) {
+		if (file.fd != VIRTIO_INVALID_EVENTFD)
+			close(file.fd);
+
 		return RTE_VHOST_MSG_RESULT_ERR;
+	}
 
 	*pdev = dev;
 
-- 
2.26.2



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