On 10/05/2018 10:06 AM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
If an error occurs, 'mlx4_en_destroy_netdev()' is called. It then calls 'mlx4_en_free_resources()' which does the needed resources cleanup. So, doing some explicit kfree in the error handling path would lead to some double kfree. Simplify code to avoid such a case. Fixes: 67f8b1dcb9ee ("net/mlx4_en: Refactor the XDP forwarding rings scheme") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v1 -> v2 : rewrite the fix as explained by Tariq Toukan (this 2nd version may have been posted twice, once without the v2 tag. PLease ignore the first one) --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c index e0adac4a9a19..9670b33fc9b1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c @@ -3324,12 +3324,11 @@ int mlx4_en_init_netdev(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev, int port, MAX_TX_RINGS, GFP_KERNEL); if (!priv->tx_ring[t]) { err = -ENOMEM; - goto err_free_tx; + goto out; } priv->tx_cq[t] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mlx4_en_cq *) * MAX_TX_RINGS, GFP_KERNEL); if (!priv->tx_cq[t]) { - kfree(priv->tx_ring[t]); err = -ENOMEM; goto out; } @@ -3582,11 +3581,6 @@ int mlx4_en_init_netdev(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev, int port,return 0; -err_free_tx:- while (t--) { - kfree(priv->tx_ring[t]); - kfree(priv->tx_cq[t]); - } out: mlx4_en_destroy_netdev(dev); return err;
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks Christophe. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
