linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ice: Fix memory leak in ice_get_orom_civd

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Date:   Fri, 1 Apr 2022 16:13:15 -0700
From:   Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>
To:     Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@....com>,
        <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ice: Fix memory leak in ice_get_orom_civd_data()

On 4/1/2022 1:00 AM, Jianglei Nie wrote:
> Line 637 allocates a memory chunk for orom_data by vzmalloc(). But

References to lile numbers don't age very well.
suggest you s/Line 637/ice_get_orom_civd_data()/

> when ice_read_flash_module() fails, the allocated memory is not freed,
> which will lead to a memory leak.
> 
> We can fix it by freeing the orom_data when ce_read_flash_module() fails.

s/We can fix/Fix/

actual patch LGTM
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@....com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c
> index 4eb0599714f4..13cdb5ea594d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_nvm.c
> @@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ ice_get_orom_civd_data(struct ice_hw *hw, enum ice_bank_select bank,
>   	status = ice_read_flash_module(hw, bank, ICE_SR_1ST_OROM_BANK_PTR, 0,
>   				       orom_data, hw->flash.banks.orom_size);
>   	if (status) {
> +		vfree(orom_data);
>   		ice_debug(hw, ICE_DBG_NVM, "Unable to read Option ROM data\n");
>   		return status;
>   	}