Hi Honnappa,
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>
>Sent: Tuesday 22 September 2020 00:43
>To: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnam...@intel.com>; Power, Ciara
><ciara.po...@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
>Cc: Power, Ciara <ciara.po...@intel.com>; sta...@dpdk.org; Wiles, Keith
><keith.wi...@intel.com>; nd <n...@arm.com>; Honnappa Nagarahalli
><honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>; nd <n...@arm.com>
>Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] metrics: fix resource leak on
>memory allocation fail
>
><snip>
>
>>
>> > If an error occurred when allocating memory for metrics or names,
>> > the function returned without freeing allocated memory. This is now
>> > fixed to avoid the resource leak in the case that either metrics or
>> > names had been successfully allocated memory.
>> >
>> > Coverity issue: 362053
>> > Fixes: c5b7197f662e ("telemetry: move some functions to metrics
>> > library")
>> > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>>
>> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>
>>
>This is fixed in https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/75323/. Can you please check
>if that suffices?
I left some comments on that patch, but seeing as it is fixing the same issue,
I will remove this patch.
Thanks,
Ciara
