[PATCH v2 20/26] net/iavf: avoid rte malloc in MAC address operations

Anatoly Burakov
2026-02-10T16:16:24Z

Currently, when adding or deleting MAC addresses, we are using
rte_zmalloc followed by an immediate rte_free. This is not needed as this
memory is not being stored anywhere, so replace it with regular
malloc/free.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c
index 55986ef909..19dce17612 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ iavf_add_del_all_mac_addr(struct iavf_adapter *adapter, bool add)
}
}

- list = rte_zmalloc("iavf_del_mac_buffer", len, 0);
+ list = calloc(1, len);
if (!list) {
PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "fail to allocate memory");
return;
@@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ iavf_add_del_all_mac_addr(struct iavf_adapter *adapter, bool add)
PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "fail to execute command %s",
add ? "OP_ADD_ETHER_ADDRESS" :
"OP_DEL_ETHER_ADDRESS");
- rte_free(list);
+ free(list);
begin = next_begin;
} while (begin < IAVF_NUM_MACADDR_MAX);
}
--
2.47.3