From: Yang Ming <ming.1.yang@nokia-sbell.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Yang Ming <ming.1.yang@nokia-sbell.com>,
anatoly.burakov@intel.com, stable@dpdk.org,
Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] eal: fix unused memseg length
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 16:58:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250102085838.991-1-ming.1.yang@nokia-sbell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241226081020.3479-1-ming.1.yang@nokia-sbell.com>
Fix the issue where OS memory is mistakenly freed with rte_free
by setting the length (len) of unused memseg to 0.
When `eal_legacy_hugepage_init()` releases the VA space for
unused memseg lists(MSLs), it does not reset MSLs' length to 0.
As a result, `mlx5_mem_is_rte()` may incorrectly identify OS
memory as rte memory.
This can lead to `mlx_free()` calling `rte_free()` on OS memory,
causing an "EAL: Error: Invalid memory" log and failing to free
the OS memory.
This issue is occasional and occurs when the DPDK program’s
memory map places the heap address range between 0 and len(32G).
In such cases, malloc may return an address less than len,
causing `mlx5_mem_is_rte()` to incorrectly treat it as rte
memory.
Also, consider how the MSL with `base_va == NULL` ends up in
`mlx5_mem_is_rte()`. It comes from `rte_mem_virt2memseg_list()`
which iterates MSLs and checks that an address belongs to
[`base_va`; `base_va+len`) without checking whether
`base_va == NULL` i.e. that the MSL is inactive. So this patch
also corrects `rte_mem_virt2memseg_list()` behavior.
Fixes: 66cc45e293ed ("mem: replace memseg with memseg lists")
Cc: anatoly.burakov@intel.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Ming <ming.1.yang@nokia-sbell.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
---
lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c
index 45879ca743..9dda60c0e1 100644
--- a/lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c
+++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c
@@ -1472,6 +1472,7 @@ eal_legacy_hugepage_init(void)
mem_sz = msl->len;
munmap(msl->base_va, mem_sz);
msl->base_va = NULL;
+ msl->len = 0;
msl->heap = 0;
/* destroy backing fbarray */
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-02 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-26 8:10 [PATCH] Fix unused memseg length for memory issue Yang Ming
2025-01-01 12:34 ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2025-01-02 6:59 ` Yang Ming
2025-01-02 8:58 ` Yang Ming [this message]
2025-01-02 7:26 [PATCH v2] eal: fix unused memseg length Yang Ming
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