[PATCH v4 02/19] eal/linux: remove use of VLAs

[David Marchand]

Hello Andre,

Thanks for taking over this series.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 4:18 AM Andre Muezerie
<andremue at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> From: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at huawei.com>
>
> 1) ./lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c:1073:16
>     : warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘events’
>
> eal_intr_handle_interrupts() is called by eal_intr_thread_main()
> so it seems ok to simply alloc space for events from heap and reuse the
> same buffer through the life of the thread.

ASan reports this allocation as a leak because nothing releases it
when terminating the interrupt thread.

=================================================================
==83289==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks

Direct leak of 12300 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
    #0 0x55903c9a54b6 in __interceptor_realloc
(/home/runner/work/dpdk/dpdk/build/app/dpdk-test+0x2744b6) (BuildId:
e8a4f6c67f5c6afc20efb5f168c0df885d4c6493)
    #1 0x7f0011ee8873 in eal_intr_thread_main
/home/runner/work/dpdk/dpdk/build/../lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c:1174:8
    #2 0x7f0010694ac2 in start_thread nptl/./nptl/pthread_create.c:442:8

SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 12300 byte(s) leaked in 1 allocation(s).
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It will need some rework.


-- 
David Marchand