[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix use-after-free issue on thread creation

[Jianfeng Tan]

After below commit, we encounter some strange issue:
  1) Dead lock as described here:
     http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-April/099806.html
  2) SIGSEGV issue when starting a testpmd in VM.

Considering below commit changes to use dynamic memory instead of
stack for memory barrier, we doubt it's caused by use-after-free.

Fixes: 3d09a6e26d8b ("eal: fix threads block on barrier")

Reported-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Lei Yao <lei.a....@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng....@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c 
b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c
index de69452..56ffd2e 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_thread.c
@@ -149,11 +149,16 @@ struct rte_thread_ctrl_params {
 
 static void *rte_thread_init(void *arg)
 {
+       int ret;
        struct rte_thread_ctrl_params *params = arg;
        void *(*start_routine)(void *) = params->start_routine;
        void *routine_arg = params->arg;
 
-       pthread_barrier_wait(&params->configured);
+       ret = pthread_barrier_wait(&params->configured);
+       if (ret == PTHREAD_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD) {
+               pthread_barrier_destroy(&params->configured);
+               free(params);
+       }
 
        return start_routine(routine_arg);
 }
@@ -204,8 +209,11 @@ rte_ctrl_thread_create(pthread_t *thread, const char *name,
        if (ret < 0)
                goto fail;
 
-       pthread_barrier_wait(&params->configured);
-       free(params);
+       ret = pthread_barrier_wait(&params->configured);
+       if (ret == PTHREAD_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD) {
+               pthread_barrier_destroy(&params->configured);
+               free(params);
+       }
 
        return 0;
 
-- 
2.7.4