linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: mscc: ocelot: Fix a resource leak in the error handling path of the probe function

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Message-ID: <ecca5770-7cb3-c0a0-0a33-fcc3854d0b74@wanadoo.fr>
Date:   Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:00:53 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mscc: ocelot: Fix a resource leak in the error
 handling path of the probe function

Le 14/12/2020 à 12:48, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:48:38PM +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>> In case of error after calling 'ocelot_init()', it must be undone by a
>> corresponding 'ocelot_deinit()' call, as already done in the remove
>> function.
>>
> 
> This changes the behavior slightly in another way as well, but it's
> probably a bug fix.
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_vsc7514.c
>    1250          ports = of_get_child_by_name(np, "ethernet-ports");
>    1251          if (!ports) {
>    1252                  dev_err(ocelot->dev, "no ethernet-ports child node found\n");
>    1253                  return -ENODEV;
>    1254          }
>    1255
>    1256          ocelot->num_phys_ports = of_get_child_count(ports);
>    1257          ocelot->num_flooding_pgids = 1;
>    1258
>    1259          ocelot->vcap = vsc7514_vcap_props;
>    1260          ocelot->inj_prefix = OCELOT_TAG_PREFIX_NONE;
>    1261          ocelot->xtr_prefix = OCELOT_TAG_PREFIX_NONE;
>    1262          ocelot->npi = -1;
>    1263
>    1264          err = ocelot_init(ocelot);
>    1265          if (err)
>    1266                  goto out_put_ports;
>    1267
>    1268          err = mscc_ocelot_init_ports(pdev, ports);
>    1269          if (err)
>    1270                  goto out_put_ports;
>    1271
>    1272          if (ocelot->ptp) {
>    1273                  err = ocelot_init_timestamp(ocelot, &ocelot_ptp_clock_info);
>    1274                  if (err) {
>    1275                          dev_err(ocelot->dev,
>    1276                                  "Timestamp initialization failed\n");
>    1277                          ocelot->ptp = 0;
>    1278                  }
> 
> In the original code, if ocelot_init_timestamp() failed we returned
> a negative error code but now we return success.  This probably is what
> the original authors intended, though.
> 

Thanks for the detailed review Dan.

I agree with you. However this "fix" was not intentional. :(

This may worth stating it in the commit message.
Can it be done when/if the patch is applied?

CJ