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

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 06:46:43PM +0800, Gencen Gan wrote:
> 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")

Unless I'm mistaken, this should be:

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("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>

I think that tags such as Reviewed-by need to be given explicitly.
And as the above two Reviewed-by tags were not, so it is a bit
odd for them to appear above.

> ---
> 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;
>      }
>    }
>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>