Hi Dexuan, Thanks for the feedback. You are right saying ‘mana_hwc_destroy_wq' free’s up the queue. However for example if function 'mana_hwc_alloc_dma_buf' fails it will goto ‘out' and call ‘mana_hwc_destroy_wq', the value 'hwc_wq->gdma_wq' is still not assigned at this point. In the ‘mana_hwc_destroy_wq' function i see it checks for 'hwc_wq->gdma_wq' before calling, ‘mana_gd_destroy_queue', which makes me think queue is still not freed. Please let me know if i am missing something. Regards, /Dhiraj > On 10 Jun 2021, at 18:28, Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 10:18 AM >> ... >>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c >>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c >>> index 1a923fd99990..4aa4bda518fb 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c >>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c >>> @@ -501,8 +501,10 @@ static int mana_hwc_create_wq(struct >>> hw_channel_context *hwc, >>> *hwc_wq_ptr = hwc_wq; >>> return 0; >>> out: >>> - if (err) >>> + if (err) { >> >> Here the 'err' must be non-zero. Can you please remove this 'if'? >> >>> + kfree(queue); >>> mana_hwc_destroy_wq(hwc, hwc_wq); >>> + } >>> return err; >>> } >> >> Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi Dhiraj, > I checked the code again and it looks like your patch is actually > unnecessary as IMO there is no memory leak here: the 'queue' > pointer is passed to mana_hwc_destroy_wq() as hwc_wq->gdma_wq, > and is later freed in mana_gd_destroy_queue() -> > mana_gd_destroy_queue(). > > The 'if' test can be removed as the 'err's is always non-zero there. > > Thanks, > Dexuan