netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: systemport: Free DMA coherent descriptors on errors

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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:25:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: systemport: Free DMA coherent descriptors on
 errors

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:01:13 -0700

> In case bcm_sysport_init_tx_ring() is not able to allocate ring->cbs, we
> would return with an error, and call bcm_sysport_fini_tx_ring() and it
> would see that ring->cbs is NULL and do nothing. This would leak the
> coherent DMA descriptor area, so we need to free it on error before
> returning.
> 
> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...il.com>
> Fixes: 80105befdb4b ("net: systemport: add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT Ethernet MAC driver")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.