netdev - [PATCH v2] net: ethernet: arc: Fix a potential memory leak if an optional regulator is deferred

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Date:   Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:59:36 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     heiko@...ech.de, branislav@...ocaj.org, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH v2] net: ethernet: arc: Fix a potential memory leak if an optional regulator is deferred

If the optional regulator is deferred, we must release some resources.
They will be re-allocated when the probe function will be called again.

Fixes: 6eacf31139bf ("ethernet: arc: Add support for Rockchip SoC layer device tree bindings")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
v2: v1 did not compile because of an erroneous variable name. s/ret/err/
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_rockchip.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_rockchip.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_rockchip.c
index 16f9bee992fe..8ee9dfd0e363 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_rockchip.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_rockchip.c
@@ -169,8 +169,10 @@ static int emac_rockchip_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	/* Optional regulator for PHY */
 	priv->regulator = devm_regulator_get_optional(dev, "phy");
 	if (IS_ERR(priv->regulator)) {
-		if (PTR_ERR(priv->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
-			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+		if (PTR_ERR(priv->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
+			err = -EPROBE_DEFER;
+			goto out_clk_disable;
+		}
 		dev_err(dev, "no regulator found\n");
 		priv->regulator = NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.14.1