From: Yong Wang <wang.yong19@zte.com.cn>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 03:57:55 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: vhost: fix memory leak
X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~5177
X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5731d6acc7fe1f76ed895d08821b51dd5c817bd0;p=dpdk.git

vhost: fix memory leak

In function vhost_new_device(), current code dose not free 'dev'
in "i == MAX_VHOST_DEVICE" condition statements. It will lead to a
memory leak.

Fixes: 45ca9c6f7bc6 ("vhost: get rid of linked list for devices")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <wang.yong19@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
---

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c
index 31825b82bc..e4150934be 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ vhost_new_device(void)
 	if (i == MAX_VHOST_DEVICE) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_CONFIG,
 			"Failed to find a free slot for new device.\n");
+		rte_free(dev);
 		return -1;
 	}