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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio: fix buffer leak on vlan insert
@ 2019-04-05  0:03 Stephen Hemminger
  2019-04-05  0:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2019-04-05  0:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: maxime.coquelin; +Cc: dev, stable, Stephen Hemminger

The function rte_vlan_insert may allocate a new buffer for the
vlan header and return a different mbuf than originally passed.
In this case, the stored mbuf in txm[] array could point to wrong
buffer.

Fixes: dd856dfcb9e7 ("virtio: use any layout on Tx")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
index e6f3706d6fe1..2ae4232c181d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
@@ -2003,6 +2003,8 @@ virtio_xmit_pkts_packed(void *tx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **tx_pkts,
 				rte_pktmbuf_free(txm);
 				continue;
 			}
+			/* vlan_insert may add a header mbuf */
+			tx_pkts[nb_tx] = txm;
 		}
 
 		/* optimize ring usage */
-- 
2.17.1

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2019-04-05  7:43 ` Jens Freimann
2019-04-05  7:43   ` Jens Freimann
2019-04-05 16:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-05 16:31   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-08  9:21   ` Jens Freimann
2019-04-08  9:21     ` Jens Freimann
2019-04-17  7:16   ` Maxime Coquelin
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2019-04-17  7:56   ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-04-17  7:56     ` Maxime Coquelin

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