[PATCH v2 5/6] net/iavf: fix leak of flex metadata extraction field

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Fri Jul 3 15:19:19 CEST 2026


Function iavf_init_proto_xtr() allocates vf->proto_xtr as part of the
device init sequence, but no shutdown function frees this memory again.
Add an appropriate free call to fix this memory leak.

Fixes: 12b435bf8f2f ("net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
index 1cd8c88384..7f5b103326 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
@@ -2757,6 +2757,8 @@ iavf_uninit_vf(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	vf->qos_cap = NULL;
 	free(vf->qtc_map);
 	vf->qtc_map = NULL;
+	rte_free(vf->proto_xtr);
+	vf->proto_xtr = NULL;
 
 	rte_free(vf->rss_lut);
 	vf->rss_lut = NULL;
-- 
2.53.0



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