[PATCH] net/virtio-user: fix leak when initialisation fails
David Marchand
david.marchand at redhat.com
Thu Apr 13 12:10:41 CEST 2023
Caught with ASan.
If initialising a virtio_user port fails, we may leak the ifname passed
via a devargs.
Fixes: 4214a1b493f2 ("net/virtio-user: support changing tap interface name")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
---
drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c
index f46a131b5c..744f3c30d2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c
@@ -696,11 +696,7 @@ virtio_user_dev_init(struct virtio_user_dev *dev, char *path, uint16_t queues,
dev->frontend_features = 0;
dev->unsupported_features = 0;
dev->backend_type = backend_type;
-
- if (*ifname) {
- dev->ifname = *ifname;
- *ifname = NULL;
- }
+ dev->ifname = *ifname;
if (virtio_user_dev_setup(dev) < 0) {
PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "(%s) backend set up fails", dev->path);
@@ -794,6 +790,7 @@ virtio_user_dev_init(struct virtio_user_dev *dev, char *path, uint16_t queues,
}
}
+ *ifname = NULL;
return 0;
notify_uninit:
--
2.39.2
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