This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed
to the 4.14-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:
net-amd-fix-link-leak-when-verifying-config-failed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit fe0a60efa93b40d0b21784a9c05a99724d5af5d1
Author: Gencen Gan <gangecen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Apr 24 23:28:01 2023 +0800
net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed
[ Upstream commit d325c34d9e7e38d371c0a299d415e9b07f66a1fb ]
After failing to verify configuration, it returns directly without
releasing link, which may cause memory leak.
Paolo Abeni thinks that the whole code of this driver is quite
"suboptimal" and looks unmainatained since at least ~15y, so he
suggests that we could simply remove the whole driver, please
take it into consideration.
Simon Horman suggests that the fix label should be set to
"Linux-2.6.12-rc2" considering that the problem has existed
since the driver was introduced and the commit above doesn't
seem to exist in net/net-next.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Gan Gecen <gangecen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c
index 9c152d85840d7..c9d2a6f150624 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ static int nmclan_config(struct pcmcia_device *link)
} else {
pr_notice("mace id not found: %x %x should be 0x40 0x?9\n",
sig[0], sig[1]);
- return -ENODEV;
+ goto failed;
}
}
