[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/5] devargs: fix memory leak on parsing error

[Xueming Li]

This patch fixes memory leak in parsing error handling.

Fixes: 338327d731e6 ("devargs: add function to parse device layers")
Cc: gaetan.ri...@6wind.com
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemi...@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Gaetan Rivet <gr...@u256.net>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c 
b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
index 48f85ee9c0..e40b91ea66 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ rte_devargs_layers_parse(struct rte_devargs *devargs,
        size_t nblayer;
        size_t i = 0;
        int ret = 0;
+       bool allocated_data = false;
 
        /* Split each sub-lists. */
        nblayer = devargs_layer_count(devstr);
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ rte_devargs_layers_parse(struct rte_devargs *devargs,
                        ret = -ENOMEM;
                        goto get_out;
                }
+               allocated_data = true;
                s = devargs->data;
        }
 
@@ -163,8 +165,14 @@ rte_devargs_layers_parse(struct rte_devargs *devargs,
                if (layers[i].kvlist)
                        rte_kvargs_free(layers[i].kvlist);
        }
-       if (ret != 0)
+       if (ret != 0) {
+               if (allocated_data) {
+                       /* Free duplicated data. */
+                       free(devargs->data);
+                       devargs->data = NULL;
+               }
                rte_errno = -ret;
+       }
        return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1