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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: stable@dpdk.org, dev@dpdk.org, shreyansh.jain@nxp.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/4] raw/skeleton: fix failing test case
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 20:03:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4502927.5MotF66W6e@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190621155659.29297-2-bruce.richardson@intel.com>

21/06/2019 17:56, Bruce Richardson:
> Rawdev unit test for setting and getting parameters is failing because
> of a pointer value being dereferenced after the memory it pointed to is
> freed.
> 
> The freeing of the malloced memory is difficult when using asserts to
> cause early abort of the test cases, since that can leak memory. The
> original placement of the free call caused a memory leak if the test
> finished early, while a fix for that leak caused the test to fail at
> times due to the memory variable being referenced after free. For a case
> like this, using stack rather than heap memory is just easier and avoids
> all issues.
> 
> Fixes: 55ca1b0f2151 ("raw/skeleton: add test cases")
> Fixes: 88d0e47880ec ("raw/skeleton: fix memory leak on test failure")
> Cc: shreyansh.jain@nxp.com
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

This test is already fixed by another patch:
http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=dcb1595956




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-01 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190619170802.7691-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2019-06-19 17:08 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] " Bruce Richardson
2019-06-19 17:08 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] app/test: add missing rawdev autotest to meson build Bruce Richardson
     [not found] ` <20190621155659.29297-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2019-06-21 15:56   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/4] raw/skeleton: fix failing test case Bruce Richardson
2019-06-27 11:50     ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Hemant Agrawal
2019-07-01 18:03     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-06-21 15:56   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 2/4] app/test: add missing rawdev test to meson build Bruce Richardson
2019-07-01 18:10     ` Thomas Monjalon
     [not found] ` <20190702095608.20722-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2019-07-02  9:56   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/3] app/test: add missing rawdev autotest " Bruce Richardson

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