[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v1] net/mlx5: fix secondary process resource leakage

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 22:36 +0000, Ophir Munk wrote:
> When running testpmd with an mlx5 device and then executing at
> testpmd
> prompt in a raw: "port start all" followed by "port stop all"
> a new file named /var/tmp/net_mlx5_<socket num> is created as a
> result
> of creating a new unix domain socket (used for communication between
> the primary and secondary processes).
> When the new unix socket file is created the old unix socket file
> should
> have been removed. This commit fixes it by closing the old unix
> socket
> just before creating the new one in function mlx5_socket_init()
> 
> Fixes: f8b9a3bad467 ("net/mlx5: install a socket to exchange a file
> descriptor")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu at mellanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c
> b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c
> index 99297d5..a3a5229 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,12 @@
>  	int flags;
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * Close the last socket that was used to communicate
> +	 * with the secondary process
> +	 */
> +	if (priv->primary_socket)
> +		mlx5_socket_uninit(dev);
> +	/*
>  	 * Initialise the socket to communicate with the secondary
>  	 * process.
>  	 */

Hi,

Has this (or a version of this) been merged in master? For which of the
stable releases is this for?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi