[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx4: fix mem leak when a device configured repeatedly

[wangyunjian]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slava Ovsiienko [mailto:viacheslavo at nvidia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 10:05 PM
> To: wangyunjian <wangyunjian at huawei.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>; Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at nvidia.com>;
> dingxiaoxiong <dingxiaoxiong at huawei.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx4: fix mem leak when a device
> configured repeatedly
> 
> Hi, Yunjian
> 
> Nice and tiny fix, thank you!
> Could you, please, remove the empty line after mlx4/5_proc_priv_uninit(dev) to
> follow the mlx5 coding style?

OK, I will fix it in next version.

Thanks,
Yunjian

> 
> With best regards,
> Slava
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wangyunjian <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 16:18
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>; Shahaf Shuler
> > <shahafs at nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>;
> > dingxiaoxiong at huawei.com; Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>;
> > stable at dpdk.org
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx4: fix mem leak when a device
> > configured repeatedly
> >
> > From: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> >
> > Currently, configuring a mlx device, it will allocate its own process
> > private in
> > mlx5_proc_priv_init() and only frees it when closing the device. This
> > will lead to a memory leak, when a device is configured repeatedly.
> >
> > For example:
> > for(...)
> > do
> > 	rte_eth_dev_configure
> > 	rte_eth_rx_queue_setup
> > 	rte_eth_tx_queue_setup
> > 	rte_eth_dev_start
> > 	rte_eth_dev_stop
> > done
> >
> > Fixes: 97d37d2c1f6b ("net/mlx4: remove device register remap")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian at huawei.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c index
> > 7cd35cd3ca..c72587b7ef 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c
> > @@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ mlx4_proc_priv_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
> >  	struct mlx4_proc_priv *ppriv;
> >  	size_t ppriv_size;
> >
> > +	mlx4_proc_priv_uninit(dev);
> > +
> >  	/*
> >  	 * UAR register table follows the process private structure. BlueFlame
> >  	 * registers for Tx queues are stored in the table.
> > --
> > 2.23.0