netdev - [patch] fsl/fman: fix a leak in tgec

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Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:20:43 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>,
        Igal Liberman <igal.liberman@...escale.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] fsl/fman: fix a leak in tgec_free()

We set "tgec->cfg" to NULL before passing it to kfree().  There is no
need to set it to NULL at all.  Let's just delete it.

Fixes: 57ba4c9b56d8 ("fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC support")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
I haven't tested this.  It occurs to me that this code might be
something to paper over a use after free bug by changing it to a leak
instead.

It applies to net-master.

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_tgec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_tgec.c
index efabb04..4b0f3a5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_tgec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_tgec.c
@@ -722,9 +722,6 @@ int tgec_free(struct fman_mac *tgec)
 {
 	free_init_resources(tgec);
 
-	if (tgec->cfg)
-		tgec->cfg = NULL;
-
 	kfree(tgec->cfg);
 	kfree(tgec);