[PATCH v4] net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed

From: Gencen Gan
Date: Mon Apr 24 2023 - 07:00:06 EST


After failing to verify configuration, it returns directly without
releasing link, which may cause memory leak.

Paolo Abeni thinks that the whole code of this driver is quite
"suboptimal" and looks unmainatained since at least ~15y, so he
suggests that we could simply remove the whole driver, please
take it into consideration.

Simon Horman suggests that the fix label should be set to
"Linux-2.6.12-rc2" considering that the problem has existed
since the driver was introduced and the commit above doesn't
seem to exist in net/net-next.

Fixes: 99c3b0265649 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Gan Gecen <gangecen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3->v4: modify the 'Fixes:' tag to make it more accurate.
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c
index 823a329a921f..0dd391c84c13 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ static int nmclan_config(struct pcmcia_device *link)
} else {
pr_notice("mace id not found: %x %x should be 0x40 0x?9\n",
sig[0], sig[1]);
- return -ENODEV;
+ goto failed;
}
}

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2.34.1