Re: [net PATCH v2] net: ethernet: stmicro: stmmac: fix possible memory leak in __stmmac_open

From: Simon Horman
Date: Wed Jun 14 2023 - 15:17:44 EST


On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:17:14AM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Fix a possible memory leak in __stmmac_open when stmmac_init_phy fails.
> It's also needed to free everything allocated by stmmac_setup_dma_desc
> and not just the dma_conf struct.
>
> Drop free_dma_desc_resources from __stmmac_open and correctly call
> free_dma_desc_resources on each user of __stmmac_open on error.
>
> Reported-by: Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: ba39b344e924 ("net: ethernet: stmicro: stmmac: generate stmmac dma conf before open")
> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>