On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 07:58:18AM +0000, Anurag Mandal wrote: > This patch series addresses two memory handling issues in the ice PMD. > > - The first one makes memory allocation and release symmetric. > Several buffers obtained through ice_malloc(), ice_calloc() > or ice_memdup() were released with rte_free() instead of ice_free(). > Both APIs currently map to the same underlying allocator. > However, mixing them is inconsistent and would break if the OS > abstraction layer ever changes. > > - The second one fixes an unchecked allocation in ice_tx_queue_start() > which dereferences the Tx time queue context buffer returned by > ice_malloc() without NULL check. > On allocation failure, the E830 send-on-timestamp path therefore crashes > instead of reporting "No Memory" error, and also the already allocated > txq_elem buffer gets leaked. > > Anurag Mandal (2): > net/ice: free memory with matching allocator > net/ice: fix unchecked Tx time context allocation > > drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_acl_filter.c | 10 +++++----- > drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_parent.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c | 14 +++++++------- > drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_fdir_filter.c | 12 ++++++------ > drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- > 6 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) > Patches applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.
Thanks, /Bruce
