Description: backport of dpdk 16.07 fix 7cc3f2c2 Author: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Tue Apr 12 15:49:27 2016 +0200 lpm: fix freeing in compatibility mode Back then when we fixed the missing free lpm I was to quickly to say yes if it applies not only to the lpm6 but also to all of the lpm code. It turned out to not apply to all of them. In rte_lpm_create_v20 there is an unexpected fused allocation: mem_size = sizeof(*lpm) + (sizeof(lpm->rules_tbl[0]) * max_rules); [...] lpm = (struct rte_lpm_v20 *)rte_zmalloc_socket(mem_name,mem_size, RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, socket_id); That causes lpm->rules_tbl not to have an own struct malloc_elem that can be derived via RTE_PTR_SUB(data, MALLOC_ELEM_HEADER_LEN) in malloc_elem_from_data. Due to that the rte_lpm_free_v20 accidentially misderives the elem and assumes it is ELEM_FREE triggering in malloc_elem_free if (!malloc_elem_cookies_ok(elem) || elem->state != return -1; While it seems counter-intuitive the way to properly remove rules_tbl in the old fused allocation style of rte_lpm_free_v20 is to not remove it. The newer rte_lpm_free_v1604 is safe because in rte_lpm_create_v1604 rules_tbl is a separate allocation. Fixes: d4c18f0a1d5d ("lpm: fix missing free") Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt Acked-by: Olivier Matz Forwarded: yes (in DPDK 16.07) Author: Christian Ehrhardt Last-Update: 2016-05-17 Index: dpdk/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c =================================================================== --- dpdk.orig/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c +++ dpdk/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c @@ -373,7 +373,6 @@ rte_lpm_free_v20(struct rte_lpm_v20 *lpm rte_rwlock_write_unlock(RTE_EAL_TAILQ_RWLOCK); - rte_free(lpm->rules_tbl); rte_free(lpm); rte_free(te); }