Even if a device failed to plug, it's still a device object that references the devargs. Those devargs will be freed automatically together with the device, but can't be freed any earlier.
Fixes: 7e8b26650146 ("eal: fix hotplug add / remove") Cc: gaetan.ri...@6wind.com Signed-off-by: Darek Stojaczyk <dariusz.stojac...@intel.com> --- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c index 1fdc9ab17..b6fc5e437 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c @@ -169,11 +169,10 @@ local_dev_probe(const char *devargs, struct rte_device **new_dev) ret = dev->bus->plug(dev); if (ret) { - if (rte_dev_is_probed(dev)) /* if already succeeded earlier */ - return ret; /* no rollback */ - RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Driver cannot attach the device (%s)\n", - dev->name); - goto err_devarg; + if (!rte_dev_is_probed(dev)) /* if hasn't succeeded earlier */ + RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Driver cannot attach the device (%s)\n", + dev->name); + return ret; } *new_dev = dev; -- 2.17.1