linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] ionic: fix memory leak of object 'lid'

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Message-Id: <20200722.181043.1052337587227758653.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:10:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     snelson@...sando.io, drivers@...sando.io, kuba@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ionic: fix memory leak of object 'lid'

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:40:03 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently when netdev fails to allocate the error return path
> fails to free the allocated object 'lid'.  Fix this by setting
> err to the return error code and jumping to a new label that
> performs the kfree of lid before returning.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
> Fixes: 4b03b27349c0 ("ionic: get MTU from lif identity")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.