[PATCH 11/20] net/iavf: fix a memory leak in error handling

Weiguo Li liwg06 at foxmail.com
Tue Feb 22 19:18:09 CET 2022


When function return from this branch, memory for 'items' is not
freed which caused a memory leak.

Fixes: ff2d0c345c3b ("net/iavf: support generic flow API")

Signed-off-by: Weiguo Li <liwg06 at foxmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/iavf/iavf_generic_flow.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_generic_flow.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_generic_flow.c
index 2befa125ac..a733ebc613 100644
--- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_generic_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_generic_flow.c
@@ -2013,6 +2013,7 @@ iavf_search_pattern_match_item(const struct rte_flow_item pattern[],
 	pattern_match_item = rte_zmalloc("iavf_pattern_match_item",
 				sizeof(struct iavf_pattern_match_item), 0);
 	if (!pattern_match_item) {
+		rte_free(items);
 		rte_flow_error_set(error, ENOMEM, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_HANDLE,
 				   NULL, "Failed to allocate memory.");
 		return NULL;
-- 
2.25.1



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