Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/pcap: fix memory leak from missing pcap_close

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 11/6/2017 11:52 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 11/5/2017 9:24 AM, Stefan Baranoff wrote:
>> In open_single_tx_pcap there is a call to pcap_open_dead which calls
>> malloc to create and return a pcap_t. That object is never freed in
>> this case. Other places it is freed by passing it back similar to the
>> way the pcap_dumper_t is in this case.
>>
>> The pcap_t is only used to create the pcap_dumper_t and is never used
>> again so freeing it here is safe and much simpler than trying to pass
>> it back to be freed in eth_dev_stop along with the other
>> pcap_t/pcap_dumper_t objects.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Baranoff <sbaranoff@gmail.com>
> 
> net/pcap: fix memory leak in dumper open
> 
> Fixes: 4c173302c307 ("pcap: add new driver")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.