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From: "Wang, Yipeng1" <yipeng1.wang@intel.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "Gobriel, Sameh" <sameh.gobriel@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] member: fix memory leak on error
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:23:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D2C4A16CA39F7F4E8E384D204491D7A6445B33D8@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a566866c-db67-4357-775d-5832b4d9daab@intel.com>

Sure. Thanks Anatoly,

Please go ahead and submit V2. 

Thanks
Yipeng

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Burakov, Anatoly
>Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2017 3:55 AM
>To: Wang, Yipeng1 <yipeng1.wang@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
>Cc: Gobriel, Sameh <sameh.gobriel@intel.com>
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] member: fix memory leak on error
>
>On 22-Dec-17 6:33 PM, Wang, Yipeng1 wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Burakov, Anatoly
>>> Yep, i can see that now. Didn't think to look inside rte_member_free()
>>> :/ However, you're creating a race condition there - you're unlocking a
>>> tailq, and then locking (and unlocking) it again inside
>>> rte_member_free() - it probably needs _thread_unsafe() functions that
>>> you can call from behind the lock.
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> Thank you Anatoly,
>>
>> I realize that rte_member_free does not do anything good here. As a fix, I
>think the following should work. Is there any other concern?
>>
>
>Yes, that should work. Table creation is the last step that can cause an
>error, so if we're there, we already know that we couldn't have
>allocated it, so there's no need to deallocate those, and simple
>rte_free(setsum) should do. I'll submit a v2?
>
>--
>Thanks,
>Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-26 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-21 17:50 Anatoly Burakov
2017-12-22  0:01 ` Wang, Yipeng1
2017-12-22  9:20   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-12-22 18:33     ` Wang, Yipeng1
2017-12-23 11:55       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-12-26 17:23         ` Wang, Yipeng1 [this message]
2017-12-22  0:07 ` Wang, Yipeng1
2018-01-12 17:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Anatoly Burakov
2018-01-16 17:14   ` Wang, Yipeng1
2018-01-18 23:40     ` Thomas Monjalon

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