If something went wrong in mlx5 pci prop the allocated eth dev
will cause a memory leak.
This commit release the eth dev that was previously allocated.
Fixes: 771fa900b73a ("mlx5: introduce new driver for Mellanox ConnectX-4
adapters")
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@mellanox.com>
---
v2 changes:
Reword the commit log.
v3 changes:
Reword the commit log.
change the release to be only in primary process.
---
---
drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
index 3831e3d..c4ab166 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
@@ -1063,6 +1063,8 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv
__rte_unused,
claim_zero(mlx5_glue->dealloc_pd(pd));
if (ctx)
claim_zero(mlx5_glue->close_device(ctx));
+ if (eth_dev && rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
+ rte_eth_dev_release_port(eth_dev);
break;
}
/*
--
2.7.4
