Re: [PATCH] nfp: Fix memory leak in nfp_resource_acquire()

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Apr 09 2020 - 13:18:48 EST


From: Keita Suzuki <keitasuzuki.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:02:07 +0000

> This patch fixes a memory leak in nfp_resource_acquire(). res->mutex is
> alllocated in nfp_resource_try_acquire(). However, when
> msleep_interruptible() or time_is_before_eq_jiffies() fails, it falls
> into err_fails path where res is freed, but res->mutex is not.
>
> Fix this by changing call to free to nfp_resource_release().
>
> Signed-off-by: Keita Suzuki <keitasuzuki.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Did you test compile this?

drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c: In function ʽnfp_resource_acquireʼ:
drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c:203:2: error: implicit declaration of function ʽnfp_resource_relaseʼ; did you mean ʽnfp_resource_releaseʼ? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
nfp_resource_relase(res);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
nfp_resource_release

And this makes me feel like the test was not runtime tested either.