From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 6dd4b4f3936e17fedea1308bc70e9716f68bf232 ] An 'alloc_etherdev()' called is not ballanced by a corresponding 'free_netdev()' call in one error handling path. Slighly reorder the error handling code to catch the missed case. Fixes: c100e47caa8e ("mlxsw: minimal: Add ethtool support") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/minimal.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/minimal.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/minimal.c @@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ mlxsw_m_port_create(struct mlxsw_m *mlxs err_register_netdev: mlxsw_m->ports[local_port] = NULL; - free_netdev(dev); err_dev_addr_get: + free_netdev(dev); err_alloc_etherdev: mlxsw_core_port_fini(mlxsw_m->core, local_port); return err;