[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] ipc: fix rte_mp_request_sync memleak

[Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lipiec@intel.com>]

When sending multiple requests, rte_mp_request_sync
can succeed sending a few of those requests, but then
fail on a later one and in the end return with rc=-1.
The upper layers - e.g. device hotplug - currently
handles this case as if no messages were sent and no
memory for response buffers was allocated, which is
not true. Fixed by always initializing message buffer
to NULL.

Fixes: 783b6e54971d ("eal: add synchronous multi-process communication")
Cc: jianfeng.tan@intel.com
Cc: jia.quo@intel.com
Cc: gi.z.zhang@intel.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lipiec@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c | 6 +++---
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
index b46d644b3..abaff5164 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
@@ -927,13 +927,13 @@ rte_mp_request_sync(struct rte_mp_msg *req, struct rte_mp_reply *reply,
 
 	RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "request: %s\n", req->name);
 
-	if (check_input(req) == false)
-		return -1;
-
 	reply->nb_sent = 0;
 	reply->nb_received = 0;
 	reply->msgs = NULL;
 
+	if (check_input(req) == false)
+		return -1;
+
 	if (internal_config.no_shconf) {
 		RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "No shared files mode enabled, IPC is disabled\n");
 		return 0;
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
index 833433229..575f8119e 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
@@ -309,7 +309,8 @@ rte_mp_sendmsg(struct rte_mp_msg *msg);
  * This function sends a request message to the peer process, and will
  * block until receiving reply message from the peer process.
  *
- * @note The caller is responsible to free reply->replies.
+ * @note The caller is responsible to free reply->replies (even if the function
+ *    returned failure).
  *
  * @param req
  *   The req argument contains the customized request message.
-- 
2.17.2