This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_ptp_open
to the 5.15-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-mlx5e-fix-memory-leak-in-mlx5e_ptp_open.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 216f20de5eb5d285043eccb89c7cbb4b37dd6e7e
Author: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 30 09:49:03 2023 +0800
net/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_ptp_open
[ Upstream commit d543b649ffe58a0cb4b6948b3305069c5980a1fa ]
When kvzalloc_node or kvzalloc failed in mlx5e_ptp_open, the memory
pointed by "c" or "cparams" is not freed, which can lead to a memory
leak. Fix by freeing the array in the error path.
Fixes: 145e5637d941 ("net/mlx5e: Add TX PTP port object support")
Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rahul Rameshbabu <rrameshbabu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Gal Pressman <gal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/ptp.c
index ee95cc3a03786..ce941e6091c57 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/ptp.c
@@ -676,8 +676,10 @@ int mlx5e_ptp_open(struct mlx5e_priv *priv, struct mlx5e_params *params,
c = kvzalloc_node(sizeof(*c), GFP_KERNEL, dev_to_node(mlx5_core_dma_dev(mdev)));
cparams = kvzalloc(sizeof(*cparams), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!c || !cparams)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (!c || !cparams) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_free;
+ }
c->priv = priv;
c->mdev = priv->mdev;
