The lock sh->txpp.mutex was not correctly released if the function returned in these two branches, which may led to deadlock if the function was acquired again.
Fixes: d133f4cdb7 ("net/mlx5: create clock queue for packet pacing") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <cy...@connect.ust.hk> --- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txpp.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txpp.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txpp.c index 4f6da9f2d1..0ece788a84 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txpp.c +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txpp.c @@ -961,8 +961,12 @@ mlx5_txpp_stop(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) MLX5_ASSERT(!ret); RTE_SET_USED(ret); MLX5_ASSERT(sh->txpp.refcnt); - if (!sh->txpp.refcnt || --sh->txpp.refcnt) + if (!sh->txpp.refcnt || --sh->txpp.refcnt) { + ret = pthread_mutex_unlock(&sh->txpp.mutex); + MLX5_ASSERT(!ret); + RTE_SET_USED(ret); return; + } /* No references any more, do actual destroy. */ mlx5_txpp_destroy(sh); ret = pthread_mutex_unlock(&sh->txpp.mutex); -- 2.17.1