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From: "Stojaczyk, Dariusz" <dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "Zhang, Qi Z" <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix rte_mp_request_sync() memleak on device hotplug
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:02:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FBE7E039FA50BF47A673AD0BD3CD56A846225467@HASMSX105.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8d89df2-f1c5-d0c0-bc57-82b35a81c392@intel.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burakov, Anatoly
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 4:22 PM
> To: Stojaczyk, Dariusz <dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix rte_mp_request_sync() memleak
> on device hotplug
> 
> <SNIP>
>
> This is correct but incomplete. There are also numerous error conditions
> which check for number of received responses to be a particular number,
> and if the number don't match, we just exit without freeing memory.
> Those errors need to free the memory as well.
> 

Yup, thanks. I pushed v2 with one extra free() in the function notifying secondary processes.
The function which notifies the primary process has a similar error check -
 - `if (mp_reply.nb_received == 1)`  - but I figured if there's more than 1 primary process
replying, then the memory leak is your smallest problem.

> --
> Thanks,
> Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-29 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-25 10:46 Darek Stojaczyk
2018-10-26 14:22 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-10-29 12:02   ` Stojaczyk, Dariusz [this message]
2018-10-29 14:25     ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-10-29 11:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: fix IPC " Darek Stojaczyk
2018-10-30 10:15   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-10-31 17:21     ` Thomas Monjalon

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