Re: [PATCH 3/3] lpm: fix missing free of lpm

[Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>]

Hi Christian,

On 03/16/2016 01:33 PM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Fixing lpm6 regarding a similar issue showed that that in rte_lpm_free lpm
> might not be freed if it didn't find a te (early return)
>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> ---
>   lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c | 8 ++------
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c b/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c
> index ccaaa2a..d5fa1f8 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c
> @@ -360,12 +360,8 @@ rte_lpm_free_v20(struct rte_lpm_v20 *lpm)
>   		if (te->data == (void *) lpm)
>   			break;
>   	}
> -	if (te == NULL) {
> -		rte_rwlock_write_unlock(RTE_EAL_TAILQ_RWLOCK);
> -		return;
> -	}
> -
> -	TAILQ_REMOVE(lpm_list, te, next);
> +	if (te != NULL)
> +		TAILQ_REMOVE(lpm_list, te, next);
>
>   	rte_rwlock_write_unlock(RTE_EAL_TAILQ_RWLOCK);
>
>

I've just seen you had already posted a series on this topic.
It looks that some free() are missing in lpm.c:

Could you please check my version of the patch (which was not as
complete as your series)?
http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/11526/

Regards,
Olivier