This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
igb: Fix potential memory leak in igb_add_ethtool_nfc_entry
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:
igb-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-igb_add_ethtool_nfc.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 c615dc79709e40d45ec3369b12916695260ce48b
Author: Mateusz Palczewski <mateusz.palczewski@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 19 13:40:35 2023 -0700
igb: Fix potential memory leak in igb_add_ethtool_nfc_entry
[ Upstream commit 8c0b48e01daba5ca58f939a8425855d3f4f2ed14 ]
Add check for return of igb_update_ethtool_nfc_entry so that in case
of any potential errors the memory alocated for input will be freed.
Fixes: 0e71def25281 ("igb: add support of RX network flow classification")
Reviewed-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Palczewski <mateusz.palczewski@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arpana Arland <arpanax.arland@xxxxxxxxx> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
index 77108b0a07f51..c8b5650b7eac5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
@@ -2951,11 +2951,15 @@ static int igb_add_ethtool_nfc_entry(struct igb_adapter *adapter,
if (err)
goto err_out_w_lock;
- igb_update_ethtool_nfc_entry(adapter, input, input->sw_idx);
+ err = igb_update_ethtool_nfc_entry(adapter, input, input->sw_idx);
+ if (err)
+ goto err_out_input_filter;
spin_unlock(&adapter->nfc_lock);
return 0;
+err_out_input_filter:
+ igb_erase_filter(adapter, input);
err_out_w_lock:
spin_unlock(&adapter->nfc_lock);
err_out:
