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* [PATCH] bpf: add allocation annotations to functions
@ 2025-08-02 16:01 Stephen Hemminger
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From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2025-08-02 16:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev; +Cc: Stephen Hemminger, Konstantin Ananyev

In commit 80da7efbb4c4 ("eal: annotate allocation functions")
helper macros were added to provide compiler information to
detect misuse of alloc/free combinations. This covered many
of the functions in DPDK but missed the case of data allocated
by BPF load functions.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/bpf/rte_bpf.h | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/bpf/rte_bpf.h b/lib/bpf/rte_bpf.h
index 80ebb0210f..309d84bc51 100644
--- a/lib/bpf/rte_bpf.h
+++ b/lib/bpf/rte_bpf.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 #include <rte_common.h>
 #include <rte_mbuf.h>
+#include <rte_malloc.h>
 #include <bpf_def.h>
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
@@ -128,7 +129,8 @@ rte_bpf_destroy(struct rte_bpf *bpf);
  *   - ENOMEM - can't reserve enough memory
  */
 struct rte_bpf *
-rte_bpf_load(const struct rte_bpf_prm *prm);
+rte_bpf_load(const struct rte_bpf_prm *prm)
+	__rte_malloc __rte_dealloc(rte_bpf_destroy, 1);
 
 /**
  * Create a new eBPF execution context and load BPF code from given ELF
@@ -152,7 +154,9 @@ rte_bpf_load(const struct rte_bpf_prm *prm);
  */
 struct rte_bpf *
 rte_bpf_elf_load(const struct rte_bpf_prm *prm, const char *fname,
-		const char *sname);
+		const char *sname)
+	__rte_malloc __rte_dealloc(rte_bpf_destroy, 1);
+
 /**
  * Execute given BPF bytecode.
  *
@@ -228,7 +232,8 @@ struct bpf_program;
  *   - ENOTSUP - operation not supported
  */
 struct rte_bpf_prm *
-rte_bpf_convert(const struct bpf_program *prog);
+rte_bpf_convert(const struct bpf_program *prog)
+	__rte_malloc __rte_dealloc_free;
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
-- 
2.47.2


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