Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/i40e: fix memory leak if VF init fails

["Xing, Beilei" <beilei.xing@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wu, Jingjing
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 3:24 AM
> To: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu@intel.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH v2] net/i40e: fix memory leak if VF init fails
> 
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Fixes: 4861cde46116 ("i40e: new poll mode driver")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
> ---
> v2 change:
>  - free aq_resp at err_aq
> 
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c
> b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c
> index f6d8293..1206af1 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c
> @@ -1317,7 +1317,9 @@ i40evf_init_vf(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
> 
>  err_alloc:
>  	rte_free(vf->vf_res);
> +	vf->vsi_res = NULL;
>  err_aq:
> +	rte_free(vf->aq_resp);

Seems it's inappropriate to free aq_resp here, if reset NIC failed, vf->aq_resp is not allocated yet.

/* Reset VF and wait until it's complete */
        if (i40evf_reset_vf(hw)) {
                PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "reset NIC failed");
                goto err_aq;
        }

How about adding a new error branch?

>  	i40e_shutdown_adminq(hw); /* ignore error */
>  err:
>  	return -1;
> --
> 2.7.4