Re: [PATCH 2/2] examples/vm_power_manager: use safe version of list iterator

["Hunt, David" <david.hunt@intel.com>]

On 01/06/2022 11:54, Hamza Khan wrote:
> Currently, when vm_power_manager exits, we are using a LIST_FOREACH
> macro to iterate over VM info structures while freeing them. This
> leads to use-after-free error. To address this, use the newly added
> LIST_FOREACH_SAFE macro.
>
> Fixes: e8ae9b662506 ("examples/vm_power: channel manager and monitor in host")
> Cc: alan.carew@intel.com
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Hamza Khan <hamza.khan@intel.com>
> ---
>   examples/vm_power_manager/channel_manager.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/examples/vm_power_manager/channel_manager.c b/examples/vm_power_manager/channel_manager.c
> index 838465ab4b..bc95cec8d6 100644
> --- a/examples/vm_power_manager/channel_manager.c
> +++ b/examples/vm_power_manager/channel_manager.c
> @@ -1005,9 +1005,9 @@ channel_manager_exit(void)
>   {
>   	unsigned i;
>   	char mask[RTE_MAX_LCORE];
> -	struct virtual_machine_info *vm_info;
> +	struct virtual_machine_info *vm_info, *tmp;
>   
> -	LIST_FOREACH(vm_info, &vm_list_head, vms_info) {
> +	LIST_FOREACH_SAFE(vm_info, &vm_list_head, vms_info, tmp) {
>   
>   		rte_spinlock_lock(&(vm_info->config_spinlock));
>   


Acked-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>