The error handling dereferences "vport". There is nothing we can do if it is an error pointer except returning the error code. Fixes: 133dcfc577ea ("net/mlx5: E-Switch, Alloc and free unique metadata for match") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c index 4e55d7225a265..857f6193f3b14 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c @@ -301,8 +301,7 @@ int mlx5_esw_acl_ingress_vport_bond_update(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, u16 vport_n if (WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(vport))) { esw_warn(esw->dev, "vport(%d) invalid!\n", vport_num); - err = PTR_ERR(vport); - goto out; + return PTR_ERR(vport); } esw_acl_ingress_ofld_rules_destroy(esw, vport); -- 2.26.2