netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] Broadcom CNIC core network driver: fix mem leak on allocation failures in cnic_alloc_uio

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Message-ID: <C27F8246C663564A84BB7AB34397724240CE6BCAD8@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
Date:	Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:57:52 -0800
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	"'Jesper Juhl'" <jj@...osbits.net>,
	"'Joe Perches'" <joe@...ches.com>,
	"'davem@...emloft.net'" <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	"'netdev@...r.kernel.org'" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"'John(Zongxi) Chen'" <zongxi@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Broadcom CNIC core network driver: fix mem leak
 on allocation failures in cnic_alloc_uio_rings()

Jesper Juhl wrote:

> 
> We are leaking memory in drivers/net/cnic.c::cnic_alloc_uio_rings() if
> either of the calls to dma_alloc_coherent() fail. This patch fixes it
> by
> freeing both the memory allocated with kzalloc() and memory allocated
> with
> previous calls to dma_alloc_coherent() when there's a failure.
> 
> Thanks to  Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>  for suggesting a better
> implementation than my initial version.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Thanks.

Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

> ---
>  cnic.c |   10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
>   compile tested only since I don't have the hardware to do a proper
> test.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/cnic.c b/drivers/net/cnic.c
> index 92bac19..952afac 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/cnic.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/cnic.c
> @@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ static int cnic_alloc_uio_rings(struct cnic_dev
> *dev, int pages)
>  					   &udev->l2_ring_map,
>  					   GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_COMP);
>  	if (!udev->l2_ring)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +		goto err_udev;
> 
>  	udev->l2_buf_size = (cp->l2_rx_ring_size + 1) * cp-
> >l2_single_buf_size;
>  	udev->l2_buf_size = PAGE_ALIGN(udev->l2_buf_size);
> @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ static int cnic_alloc_uio_rings(struct cnic_dev
> *dev, int pages)
>  					  &udev->l2_buf_map,
>  					  GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_COMP);
>  	if (!udev->l2_buf)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +		goto err_dma;
> 
>  	write_lock(&cnic_dev_lock);
>  	list_add(&udev->list, &cnic_udev_list);
> @@ -959,6 +959,12 @@ static int cnic_alloc_uio_rings(struct cnic_dev
> *dev, int pages)
>  	cp->udev = udev;
> 
>  	return 0;
> + err_dma:
> +	dma_free_coherent(&udev->pdev->dev, udev->l2_ring_size,
> +       			  udev->l2_ring, udev->l2_ring_map);
> + err_udev:
> +	kfree(udev);
> +	return -ENOMEM;
>  }
> 
>  static int cnic_init_uio(struct cnic_dev *dev)
> 
> 
> 



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