Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] nfp: flower: Fix a potential leak in nfp_tunnel_add_shared_mac()

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Feb 11 2022 - 19:54:04 EST


On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:34:52 +0100 Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> ida_simple_get() returns an id between min (0) and max (NFP_MAX_MAC_INDEX)
> inclusive.
> So NFP_MAX_MAC_INDEX (0xff) is a valid id.
>
> In order for the error handling path to work correctly, the 'invalid'
> value for 'ida_idx' should not be in the 0..NFP_MAX_MAC_INDEX range,
> inclusive.
>
> So set it to -1.
>
> Fixes: 20cce8865098 ("nfp: flower: enable MAC address sharing for offloadable devs")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch is a fix and the other one is refactoring. They can't be
in the same series because they need to go to different trees. Please
repost the former with [PATCH net] and ~one week later the latter with
[PATCH net-next].