[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] net/tap: fix ipc related memory leak

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

When sending synchronous IPC requests, the caller must free the response
buffer if the request was successful and reply is no longer needed.
Fix the code to correctly use the IPC API.

Bugzilla ID: 228
Fixes: c9aa56edec8e ("net/tap: access primary process queues from secondary")
Cc: rasland@mellanox.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lipiec@intel.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
index 7f74b5dc9..f8a4169c5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
@@ -2118,7 +2118,7 @@ tap_mp_attach_queues(const char *port_name, struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 		process_private->rxq_fds[queue] = reply->fds[fd_iterator++];
 	for (queue = 0; queue < reply_param->txq_count; queue++)
 		process_private->txq_fds[queue] = reply->fds[fd_iterator++];
-
+	free(reply);
 	return 0;
 }
 
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