From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA5623B for <dev@dpdk.org>; Wed, 2 May 2018 12:24:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga008.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.58]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 May 2018 03:24:21 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.49,354,1520924400"; d="scan'208";a="36844723" Received: from dpdk06.sh.intel.com ([10.67.110.196]) by fmsmga008.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 May 2018 03:24:20 -0700 From: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: olivier.matz@6wind.com, Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 10:26:32 +0000 Message-Id: <1525256792-24191-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix memory leak X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 10:24:22 -0000 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(¶ms->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