> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 3:21 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> Cc: Wu, Wenjun1 <wenjun1...@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing
> <jingjing...@intel.com>; Xing, Beilei <beilei.x...@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v1] net/iavf: fix resource leak issue
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 3:07 PM
> > To: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>
> > Cc: Wu, Wenjun1 <wenjun1...@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing
> > <jingjing...@intel.com>; Xing, Beilei <beilei.x...@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] net/iavf: fix resource leak issue
> >
> > 12/05/2022 02:20, Zhang, Qi Z:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 5:17 AM
> > > > To: Wu, Wenjun1 <wenjun1...@intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z
> > > > <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>
> > > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing...@intel.com>; Xing,
> > > > Beilei <beilei.x...@intel.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] net/iavf: fix resource leak issue
> > > >
> > > > 11/05/2022 17:31, Zhang, Qi Z:
> > > > > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> > > > > > 11/05/2022 13:46, Zhang, Qi Z:
> > > > > > > From: Wu, Wenjun1 <wenjun1...@intel.com>
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > This patch fixes resource leak issue reported by coverity.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Coverity issue: 378017
> > > > > > > > Fixes: b14e8a57b9fe ("net/iavf: support quanta size
> > > > > > > > configuration")
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Wenjun Wu <wenjun1...@intel.com>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In the title, the word "issue" is useless.
> > > > > > It would be more interesting to precise where is the leak.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Added below into commit log in dpdk-next-net-intel.
> > > > >
> > > > > kvlist should be freed before return an error due to invalid quanta
> > > > > size.
> > > >
> > > > It does not explain what is the scenario. What is the impacted feature?
> > >
> > > I think the scenario has been explained as
> > >
> > > "kvlist should be freed before return an error due to invalid quanta size"
> > > the impact has been mentioned as "resource leak" I guess this is how
> > > Coverity describe the issue
> >
> > No, it does not say how to reproduce (the scenario).
> > We have no idea where it is in the code.
>
> set an invalid quanta size from devargs will reproduce the issue
> >
> >
Refine the Title / commit log in dpdk-next-net-intel as below to answer
Thomas's questions
net/iavf: fix memory leak issue
Set an invalid quanta size from devargs will cause memory leak and this
is reported by coverity.
The patch fix the issue by correcting the error handle.
