When sending synchronous IPC requests, the caller must free the response buffer even if the request returned failure. Fix the code to correctly use the IPC API.
Bugzilla ID:228 Fixes: 0b259b8e9655 ("net/mlx4: enable secondary process to register DMA memory") Cc: ys...@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lip...@intel.com> --- drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_mp.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_mp.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_mp.c index 183622453..f4cff7486 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_mp.c +++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_mp.c @@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ mlx4_mp_req_mr_create(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uintptr_t addr) if (ret) { ERROR("port %u request to primary process failed", dev->data->port_id); + free(mp_rep.msgs); return -rte_errno; } assert(mp_rep.nb_received == 1); @@ -292,7 +293,8 @@ mlx4_mp_req_verbs_cmd_fd(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) if (ret) { ERROR("port %u request to primary process failed", dev->data->port_id); - return -rte_errno; + ret = -rte_errno; + goto exit; } assert(mp_rep.nb_received == 1); mp_res = &mp_rep.msgs[0]; -- 2.17.2