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[RFC,3/9] devargs: fix memory leak in legacy parser

Message ID 1608304614-13908-4-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Commit Message

Xueming Li Dec. 18, 2020, 3:16 p.m. UTC 
  Data field was designed as parser buffer, will be released once in
releasing struct memory. The duplicated device arguments was not saved
to data and this caused memory leak.

This patch fixes this leak by saving to new allocated memory to data
field.

Fixes: 4969f5914c9e ("devargs: introduce new parsing helper")
Cc: gaetan.rivet@6wind.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
index f36f71fbce..3c4774c88a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
@@ -224,13 +224,14 @@  rte_devargs_parse(struct rte_devargs *da, const char *dev)
 	da->bus = bus;
 	/* Parse eventual device arguments */
 	if (devname[i] == ',')
-		da->args = strdup(&devname[i + 1]);
+		da->data = strdup(&devname[i + 1]);
 	else
-		da->args = strdup("");
-	if (da->args == NULL) {
+		da->data = strdup("");
+	if (da->data == NULL) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "not enough memory to parse arguments\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
+	da->args = da->data;
 	return 0;
 }