> This was flagged by Address sanitizer as a use after free. The
> intr_handle ptr is shared between the main thread and the interrupt
> thread. The interrupt thread can dereference the ptr after free (from
> the alarm callback). free is called when the main thread cleans up.
>
> The interrupt thread never terminates (eal_intr_thread_main) so
> use rte_intr_callback_unregister_sync during cleanup to
> ensure the callback is removed before freeing the ptr.
>
> To be more defensive clear out the pointer and registration
> variable if we can unregister.
>
> rte_intr_callback_unregister_sync may (optionally) use traces
> so the alarm cleanup must happen before eal_trace_fini to avoid
> accessing freed memory.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 1683
>
> Signed-off-by: Rui Ferreira <[email protected]>
> ---
> .mailmap | 1 +
> lib/eal/linux/eal.c | 3 ++-
> lib/eal/linux/eal_alarm.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
> index d8439b79ce..907c5ea967 100644
> --- a/.mailmap
> +++ b/.mailmap
> @@ -1332,6 +1332,7 @@ Rosen Xu <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> Roy Franz <[email protected]>
> Roy Pledge <[email protected]>
> Roy Shterman <[email protected]>
> +Rui Ferreira <[email protected]>
> Ruifeng Wang <[email protected]>
> Rushil Gupta <[email protected]>
> Ryan E Hall <[email protected]>
> diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal.c
> index 20f777b8b0..b448db1392 100644
> --- a/lib/eal/linux/eal.c
> +++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal.c
> @@ -1329,9 +1329,10 @@ rte_eal_cleanup(void)
> rte_mp_channel_cleanup();
> eal_bus_cleanup();
> rte_trace_save();
> + /* may use trace, must be called before eal_trace_fini */
> + rte_eal_alarm_cleanup();
> eal_trace_fini();
> eal_mp_dev_hotplug_cleanup();
> - rte_eal_alarm_cleanup();
> /* after this point, any DPDK pointers will become dangling */
> rte_eal_memory_detach();
> rte_eal_malloc_heap_cleanup();
> diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal_alarm.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal_alarm.c
> index b216a007a3..eb6a21d4f0 100644
> --- a/lib/eal/linux/eal_alarm.c
> +++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal_alarm.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,14 @@ static void eal_alarm_callback(void *arg);
> void
> rte_eal_alarm_cleanup(void)
> {
> - rte_intr_instance_free(intr_handle);
> + /* unregister callback using intr_handle in interrupt thread */
> + int ret = rte_intr_callback_unregister_sync(intr_handle,
> + eal_alarm_callback, (void *)-1);
> + if (ret >= 0) {
> + rte_intr_instance_free(intr_handle);
> + intr_handle = NULL;
> + handler_registered = 0;
> + }
> }
>
> int
> --
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <[email protected]>
> 2.35.3