netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/mlx4_en: Fix an error handling path in 'mlx4_en_init

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Message-Id: <20180510.174746.56190527987284941.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 10 May 2018 17:47:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr
Cc:     tariqt@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/mlx4_en: Fix an error handling path in
 'mlx4_en_init_netdev()'

From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 09:06:04 +0200

> If an error occurs, 'mlx4_en_destroy_netdev()' is called.
> It then calls 'mlx4_en_free_resources()' which does the needed resources
> cleanup.
> 
> So, doing some explicit kfree in the error handling path would lead to
> some double kfree.
> 
> Simplify code to avoid such a case.
> 
> Fixes: 67f8b1dcb9ee ("net/mlx4_en: Refactor the XDP forwarding rings scheme")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.