Hi. I'll try to have a look in the next couple days. 

BR

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 3:54 PM
> To: Rui Ferreira (A) <rui.ferrei...@h-partners.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; sta...@dpdk.org; David Marchand
> <david.march...@redhat.com>; Konstantin Ananyev
> <konstantin.anan...@huawei.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fix eal/linux: unregister alarm callback before free
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Did you see the comment from David about fixing for Windows and FreeBSD
> at the same time?
> I think you just need to apply the same logic in 3 different places.
> If you cannot test all, that's OK to submit the changes without full coverage
> testing.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> 22/05/2025 17:59, Rui Ferreira:
> > 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 <rui.ferrei...@h-partners.com>
> > ---
> >  .mailmap                  | 1 +
> >  lib/eal/linux/eal.c       | 3 ++-
> >  lib/eal/linux/eal_alarm.c | 9 ++++++++-
> >  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> 

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