The mempool local cache is not being initialize properly leading to undefined behavior in cases where the allocated memory was used and left with data.
Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release") Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com> --- lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c index b54de43..216514c 100644 --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c @@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ rte_mempool_create_empty(const char *name, unsigned n, unsigned elt_size, /* init the mempool structure */ mp = mz->addr; - memset(mp, 0, sizeof(*mp)); + memset(mp, 0, MEMPOOL_HEADER_SIZE(mp, cache_size)); ret = snprintf(mp->name, sizeof(mp->name), "%s", name); if (ret < 0 || ret >= (int)sizeof(mp->name)) { rte_errno = ENAMETOOLONG; -- 2.4.11