Re: [PATCH] [v2] ethernet: atheros: fix a memleak in atl1e_setup_ring_resources

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri,  8 Dec 2023 16:23:14 +0800 Zhipeng Lu wrote:
> v2: Setting tx_ring->tx_buffer to NULL after free.

Having closer look at this driver  - it tries to free both on close and
remove, so seems like we do indeed have to NULL-out the pointer, sigh.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
> index 5935be190b9e..1bffe77439ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
> @@ -866,6 +866,8 @@ static int atl1e_setup_ring_resources(struct atl1e_adapter *adapter)
>  		netdev_err(adapter->netdev, "offset(%d) > ring size(%d) !!\n",
>  			   offset, adapter->ring_size);
>  		err = -1;
> +		kfree(tx_ring->tx_buffer);
> +		tx_ring->tx_buffer = NULL;
>  		goto failed;

Please add a new jump target, tho, and move the freeing there.
There's a small chance someone will add more code to this function
and it will need to copy / paste this unwind.
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