4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Bo Chen <chenbo@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ee400a3f1bfe7004a3e14b81c38ccc5583c26295 ] In 'e1000_set_ringparam()', the tx_ring and rx_ring are updated with new value and the old tx/rx rings are freed only when the device is up. There are resource leaks on old tx/rx rings when the device is not up. This bug is reported by COD, a tool for testing kernel module binaries I am building. This patch fixes the bug by always calling 'kfree()' on old tx/rx rings in 'e1000_set_ringparam()'. Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chenbo@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c @@ -645,14 +645,14 @@ static int e1000_set_ringparam(struct ne adapter->tx_ring = tx_old; e1000_free_all_rx_resources(adapter); e1000_free_all_tx_resources(adapter); - kfree(tx_old); - kfree(rx_old); adapter->rx_ring = rxdr; adapter->tx_ring = txdr; err = e1000_up(adapter); if (err) goto err_setup; } + kfree(tx_old); + kfree(rx_old); clear_bit(__E1000_RESETTING, &adapter->flags); return 0;