netdev - RE: [net-next PATCH 4/4] be2net: replace polling with sleeping in the FW completion path

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:48:25 +0530
From:	Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...adcom.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [net-next PATCH 4/4] be2net: replace polling with sleeping in the
 FW completion path

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
>
> > @@ -4477,6 +4551,22 @@ static int be_if_create(struct be_adapter
*adapter)
> >  	u32 cap_flags = be_if_cap_flags(adapter);
> >  	int status;
> >
> > +	/* alloc required memory for other filtering fields */
> > +	adapter->pmac_id = kcalloc(be_max_uc(adapter),
> > +				   sizeof(*adapter->pmac_id), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!adapter->pmac_id)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	adapter->mc_list = kcalloc(be_max_mc(adapter),
> > +				   sizeof(*adapter->mc_list), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!adapter->mc_list)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	adapter->uc_list = kcalloc(be_max_uc(adapter),
> > +				   sizeof(*adapter->uc_list), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!adapter->uc_list)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
>
> These error paths are leaking memory, please audit this in the rest of
your change as well.

David, thanks for catching this; will fix this (and others if any) and
send out a v2.