[PATCH v1] net/mlx5: fix indirect action memory leak

Rongwei Liu rongweil at nvidia.com
Wed Sep 17 12:26:03 CEST 2025


There is a handle that is not freed when using
indirect action list to manipulate legacy action.

Fixes: e26f50adb ("net/mlx5: support indirect list meter mark action")
Cc: getelson at nvidia.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongweil at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bingz at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
index 2ca40b4146..336924b8d8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
@@ -14959,6 +14959,7 @@ flow_hw_async_action_list_handle_destroy
 						    legacy->handle,
 						    user_data, error);
 		mlx5_indirect_list_remove_entry(&legacy->indirect);
+		mlx5_free(legacy);
 		goto end;
 	}
 	if (attr) {
-- 
2.27.0



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