From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: "Harris, James R" <james.r.harris@intel.com>,
"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vfio: free mp_reply msgs in failure cases
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:47:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8zwOQVKwXGk75beZ3TVtSn5s0MCukb2FAfnzB0V8L8meg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B140F8-B8E4-450B-908F-55DC7D7ED753@intel.com>
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 3:49 PM Harris, James R
<james.r.harris@intel.com> wrote:
> On 10/14/19, 4:18 AM, "David Marchand" <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 9:19 PM Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > The code checks both rte_mp_request_sync() return
> > code and that the number of messages in the reply
> > equals 1. If rte_mp_request_sync() succeeds but
> > there was more than one message, those messages
> > would get leaked.
> >
> > Found via code review by Anatoly Burakov of patches
> > that used the vhost code as a template for using
> > rte_mp_request_sync().
>
> The patch looks fine, I just want to make sure its title reflect what it fixes.
> Can you give some insights of how common this issue is? If there are
> known cases where it happens?
>
> Hi David,
>
> I don't think this issue is common at all. I don't have any known cases in mind - it was only found via code inspection.
Anatoly, Jim,
Not really inspired for the title, what do you think of:
vfio: fix potential leak with multiprocess
Plus, it deserves a Fixes: line.
Fixes: 83a73c5fef66 ("vfio: use generic multi-process channel")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
If you are okay with this, I will do the change when applying.
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-14 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 12:13 Jim Harris
2019-08-20 13:13 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-08-20 13:16 ` Harris, James R
2019-08-20 13:22 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-10-14 11:17 ` David Marchand
2019-10-14 13:49 ` Harris, James R
2019-10-14 14:47 ` David Marchand [this message]
2019-10-14 14:50 ` Harris, James R
2019-10-15 18:38 ` David Marchand
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