[PATCH v4 25/27] net/ice: avoid rte malloc in MAC address operations

Anatoly Burakov
2026-02-13T10:29:39Z

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
calloc/free.

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

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c
index 037382b336..d2a7a2847b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ dcf_add_del_mc_addr_list(struct ice_dcf_hw *hw,
len = sizeof(struct virtchnl_ether_addr_list);
len += sizeof(struct virtchnl_ether_addr) * mc_addrs_num;

- list = rte_zmalloc(NULL, len, 0);
+ list = calloc(1, len);
if (!list) {
PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "fail to allocate memory");
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ dcf_add_del_mc_addr_list(struct ice_dcf_hw *hw,
PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "fail to execute command %s",
add ? "OP_ADD_ETHER_ADDRESS" :
"OP_DEL_ETHER_ADDRESS");
- rte_free(list);
+ free(list);
return err;
}

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