This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bnx2x: fix potential memory leak in bnx2x_tpa_stop()
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bnx2x-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-bnx2x_tpa_stop.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 471b6938079aa78fb31110636135fa6779fbf066
Author: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Sep 30 14:28:43 2022 +0800
bnx2x: fix potential memory leak in bnx2x_tpa_stop()
[ Upstream commit b43f9acbb8942b05252be83ac25a81cec70cc192 ]
bnx2x_tpa_stop() allocates a memory chunk from new_data with
bnx2x_frag_alloc(). The new_data should be freed when gets some error.
But when "pad + len > fp->rx_buf_size" is true, bnx2x_tpa_stop() returns
without releasing the new_data, which will lead to a memory leak.
We should free the new_data with bnx2x_frag_free() when "pad + len >
fp->rx_buf_size" is true.
Fixes: 07b0f00964def8af9321cfd6c4a7e84f6362f728 ("bnx2x: fix possible panic under memory stress")
Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
index 2610acf9ac36..53b1b05f905e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
@@ -788,6 +788,7 @@ static void bnx2x_tpa_stop(struct bnx2x *bp, struct bnx2x_fastpath *fp,
BNX2X_ERR("skb_put is about to fail... pad %d len %d rx_buf_size %d\n",
pad, len, fp->rx_buf_size);
bnx2x_panic();
+ bnx2x_frag_free(fp, new_data);
return;
}
#endif
