From 88e2d78a20fae4cccde351e38e0b1ef534ad3302 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darek Stojaczyk <dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:49:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] vfio: fix read of freed memory on getting container fd
We were reading some memory just after freeing it.
Fixes: 83a73c5fef66 ("vfio: use generic multi-process channel")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Darek Stojaczyk <dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c
index 7d5b96426d..13a8b1811c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c
@@ -1042,8 +1042,9 @@ rte_vfio_get_container_fd(void)
mp_rep = &mp_reply.msgs[0];
p = (struct vfio_mp_param *)mp_rep->param;
if (p->result == SOCKET_OK && mp_rep->num_fds == 1) {
+ vfio_container_fd = mp_rep->fds[0];
free(mp_reply.msgs);
- return mp_rep->fds[0];
+ return vfio_container_fd;
}
free(mp_reply.msgs);
}
--
2.39.5