For the stable versions of DPDK, the NFP driver's NSP user space driver was modified to account for non-root usage. When that happened, commit 515933ad8385 ("nfp: allow for non-root user") inadvertently removed the unlink() call.
Fixes: 515933ad8385 ("nfp: allow for non-root user") Cc: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.luc...@netronome.com> Cc: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> Cc: Eelco Chaudron <echau...@redhat.com> Cc: Yuanhan Liu <y...@fridaylinux.org> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> --- drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c b/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c index ae2e07220..c003640c7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c +++ b/drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c @@ -121,5 +121,6 @@ nfpu_close(nfpu_desc_t *desc) close(desc->lock); nspu_get_lockfile_path(lockname, sizeof(lockname), desc); + unlink(lockname); return 0; } -- 2.14.3