The max message size is defined as 4k, so we don't need a special
malloc/free (and especially not rte_malloc/rte_free) for each call into
the function - especially if no data is present. Replace the malloc
calls with a local memory buffer instead.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c | 14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c 
b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
index 0d6b030536..a59ca2e047 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
@@ -1440,17 +1440,14 @@ ice_handle_aq_msg(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 {
        struct ice_hw *hw = ICE_DEV_PRIVATE_TO_HW(dev->data->dev_private);
        struct ice_ctl_q_info *cq = &hw->adminq;
-       struct ice_rq_event_info event;
+       unsigned char buf[ICE_AQ_MAX_BUF_LEN] = {0};
+       struct ice_rq_event_info event = {
+               .msg_buf = buf,
+               .buf_len = sizeof(buf),
+       };
        uint16_t pending, opcode;
        int ret;

-       event.buf_len = ICE_AQ_MAX_BUF_LEN;
-       event.msg_buf = rte_zmalloc(NULL, event.buf_len, 0);
-       if (!event.msg_buf) {
-               PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to allocate mem");
-               return;
-       }
-
        pending = 1;
        while (pending) {
                ret = ice_clean_rq_elem(hw, cq, &event, &pending);
@@ -1477,7 +1474,6 @@ ice_handle_aq_msg(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
                        break;
                }
        }
-       rte_free(event.msg_buf);
 }
 #endif

--
2.51.0

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