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From: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: olivier.matz@6wind.com, Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix memory leak
Date: Wed,  2 May 2018 10:26:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1525256792-24191-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> (raw)

params is not freed if pthread_create() fails. The fix is
straight-forward.

Fixes: 3d09a6e26d8b ("eal: fix threads block on barrier")

Reported-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c
index 5f0c61f..c18a112 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c
@@ -183,8 +183,10 @@ rte_ctrl_thread_create(pthread_t *thread, const char *name,
 	pthread_barrier_init(&params->configured, NULL, 2);
 
 	ret = pthread_create(thread, attr, rte_thread_init, (void *)params);
-	if (ret != 0)
+	if (ret != 0) {
+		free(params);
 		return ret;
+	}
 
 	if (name != NULL) {
 		ret = rte_thread_setname(*thread, name);
-- 
2.7.4

             reply	other threads:[~2018-05-02 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-02 10:26 Jianfeng Tan [this message]
2018-05-02 11:09 ` Olivier Matz
2018-05-02 15:17   ` Thomas Monjalon

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