patch 'net/nfb: fix resources release' has been queued to stable release 24.11.5

luca.boccassi at gmail.com luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 15:56:16 CET 2026


Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 24.11.5

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 02/22/26. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.

Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable

This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable/commit/3d3610ec2758dedfe5765c1fa10702f47739d866

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

---
>From 3d3610ec2758dedfe5765c1fa10702f47739d866 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Spinler <spinler at cesnet.cz>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 17:47:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] net/nfb: fix resources release

[ upstream commit 9395b64a47be63fc74a02d6ad9aeb5979c385d43 ]

Internal handles are initialized in eth_dev_init, so the cleanup
should be done in eth_dev_uninit.

Fixes: 6435f9a0ac22 ("net/nfb: add new netcope driver")

Signed-off-by: Martin Spinler <spinler at cesnet.cz>
---
 drivers/net/nfb/nfb_ethdev.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/nfb/nfb_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/nfb/nfb_ethdev.c
index 34949d6b1f..5197642f61 100644
--- a/drivers/net/nfb/nfb_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/nfb/nfb_ethdev.c
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 #include "nfb_rxmode.h"
 #include "nfb.h"
 
+static int nfb_eth_dev_uninit(struct rte_eth_dev *dev);
+
 /**
  * Default MAC addr
  */
@@ -160,8 +162,6 @@ nfb_eth_dev_stop(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	uint16_t nb_rx = dev->data->nb_rx_queues;
 	uint16_t nb_tx = dev->data->nb_tx_queues;
 
-	dev->data->dev_started = 0;
-
 	for (i = 0; i < nb_tx; i++)
 		nfb_eth_tx_queue_stop(dev, i);
 
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ static int
 nfb_eth_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev __rte_unused)
 {
 	int ret;
-	struct pmd_internals *internals = dev->process_private;
 	struct rte_eth_conf *dev_conf = &dev->data->dev_conf;
 
 	if (dev_conf->rxmode.offloads & RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_TIMESTAMP) {
@@ -193,12 +192,16 @@ nfb_eth_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev __rte_unused)
 				&nfb_timestamp_rx_dynflag);
 		if (ret != 0) {
 			NFB_LOG(ERR, "Cannot register Rx timestamp field/flag %d", ret);
-			nfb_close(internals->nfb);
-			return -rte_errno;
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto err_ts_register;
 		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
+
+err_ts_register:
+	nfb_eth_dev_uninit(dev);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static uint32_t
@@ -262,32 +265,28 @@ nfb_eth_dev_info(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 static int
 nfb_eth_dev_close(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 {
-	struct pmd_internals *internals = dev->process_private;
 	uint16_t i;
 	uint16_t nb_rx = dev->data->nb_rx_queues;
 	uint16_t nb_tx = dev->data->nb_tx_queues;
-	int ret;
 
-	nfb_nc_rxmac_deinit(internals->rxmac, internals->max_rxmac);
-	nfb_nc_txmac_deinit(internals->txmac, internals->max_txmac);
-
-	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
-		return 0;
-
-	ret = nfb_eth_dev_stop(dev);
-
-	for (i = 0; i < nb_rx; i++) {
-		nfb_eth_rx_queue_release(dev, i);
-		dev->data->rx_queues[i] = NULL;
+	if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY) {
+		for (i = 0; i < nb_rx; i++) {
+			if (dev->data->rx_queues[i]) {
+				nfb_eth_rx_queue_release(dev, i);
+				dev->data->rx_queues[i] = NULL;
+			}
+		}
+		for (i = 0; i < nb_tx; i++) {
+			if (dev->data->tx_queues[i]) {
+				nfb_eth_tx_queue_release(dev, i);
+				dev->data->tx_queues[i] = NULL;
+			}
+		}
 	}
-	dev->data->nb_rx_queues = 0;
-	for (i = 0; i < nb_tx; i++) {
-		nfb_eth_tx_queue_release(dev, i);
-		dev->data->tx_queues[i] = NULL;
-	}
-	dev->data->nb_tx_queues = 0;
 
-	return ret;
+	nfb_eth_dev_uninit(dev);
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -529,7 +528,7 @@ nfb_eth_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 			dev->device->numa_node);
 	if (internals == NULL) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		return ret;
+		goto err_alloc_internals;
 	}
 
 	dev->process_private = internals;
@@ -547,8 +546,8 @@ nfb_eth_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	internals->nfb = nfb_open(nfb_dev);
 	if (internals->nfb == NULL) {
 		NFB_LOG(ERR, "nfb_open(): failed to open %s", nfb_dev);
-		rte_free(internals);
-		return -EINVAL;
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto err_nfb_open;
 	}
 	max_rx_queues = ndp_get_rx_queue_available_count(internals->nfb);
 	max_tx_queues = ndp_get_tx_queue_available_count(internals->nfb);
@@ -583,9 +582,8 @@ nfb_eth_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 			sizeof(struct rte_ether_addr) * mac_count, RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
 		if (data->mac_addrs == NULL) {
 			NFB_LOG(ERR, "Could not alloc space for MAC address");
-			nfb_close(internals->nfb);
-			rte_free(internals);
-			return -EINVAL;
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto err_malloc_mac_addrs;
 		}
 
 		rte_eth_random_addr(eth_addr_init.addr_bytes);
@@ -607,6 +605,16 @@ nfb_eth_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 		pci_addr->function);
 
 	return 0;
+
+err_malloc_mac_addrs:
+	nfb_nc_rxmac_deinit(internals->rxmac, internals->max_rxmac);
+	nfb_nc_txmac_deinit(internals->txmac, internals->max_txmac);
+	nfb_close(internals->nfb);
+
+err_nfb_open:
+	rte_free(internals);
+err_alloc_internals:
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -625,7 +633,9 @@ nfb_eth_dev_uninit(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	struct rte_pci_addr *pci_addr = &pci_dev->addr;
 	struct pmd_internals *internals = dev->process_private;
 
-	nfb_eth_dev_close(dev);
+	nfb_nc_rxmac_deinit(internals->rxmac, internals->max_rxmac);
+	nfb_nc_txmac_deinit(internals->txmac, internals->max_txmac);
+	nfb_close(internals->nfb);
 
 	rte_free(internals);
 
-- 
2.47.3

---
  Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- -	2026-02-20 14:55:46.073010389 +0000
+++ 0074-net-nfb-fix-resources-release.patch	2026-02-20 14:55:43.276192295 +0000
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From 9395b64a47be63fc74a02d6ad9aeb5979c385d43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 3d3610ec2758dedfe5765c1fa10702f47739d866 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -5,0 +6,2 @@
+[ upstream commit 9395b64a47be63fc74a02d6ad9aeb5979c385d43 ]
+
@@ -10 +11,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org
@@ -18 +19 @@
-index 7dbdde2715..abc5c12b1e 100644
+index 34949d6b1f..5197642f61 100644
@@ -40 +41 @@
- nfb_eth_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
+ nfb_eth_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev __rte_unused)
@@ -47 +48 @@
-@@ -193,12 +192,16 @@ nfb_eth_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
+@@ -193,12 +192,16 @@ nfb_eth_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev __rte_unused)


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