linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] IB/mlx5: fix debugfs cleanup

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Message-ID: <20170918114905.GF5788@mtr-leonro.local>
Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:49:05 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
To:     Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:     Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IB/mlx5: fix debugfs cleanup

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:28:48PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
>
> If delay_drop_debugfs_init() fails in any of the operations to create
> debugfs, it is calling delay_drop_debugfs_cleanup() as part of its
> cleanup. But delay_drop_debugfs_cleanup() checks for 'dbg' and since
> we have not yet pointed 'dbg' to the debugfs we need to cleanup, the
> cleanup fails and we are left with stray debugfs elements and also a
> memory leak.
>
> Fixes: 4a5fd5d2965c ("IB/mlx5: Add necessary delay drop assignment")
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
> index ab3c562..05fb4bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
> @@ -3837,11 +3837,13 @@ static int delay_drop_debugfs_init(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
>  	if (!dbg)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>
> +	dev->delay_drop.dbg = dbg;
> +
>  	dbg->dir_debugfs =
>  		debugfs_create_dir("delay_drop",
>  				   dev->mdev->priv.dbg_root);
>  	if (!dbg->dir_debugfs)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +		goto out_debugfs;
>

Thanks,
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>

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