netdev - [PATCH net-next v2 2/7] bnxt: Avoid logging an unnecessary message when a flow can't be offloaded

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Date:   Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:07:46 -0400
From:   Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@...adcom.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 2/7] bnxt: Avoid logging an unnecessary message when a flow can't be offloaded

From: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@...adcom.com>

For every single case where bnxt_tc_can_offload() can fail, we are
logging a user friendly descriptive message anyway, but because of the
path it would take in case of failure, another redundant error message
would get logged. Just freeing the node and returning from the point of
failure should suffice.

Signed-off-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@...adcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_tc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_tc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_tc.c
index 80b39ff..c35cde8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_tc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_tc.c
@@ -1406,7 +1406,8 @@ static int bnxt_tc_add_flow(struct bnxt *bp, u16 src_fid,
 
 	if (!bnxt_tc_can_offload(bp, flow)) {
 		rc = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-		goto free_node;
+		kfree_rcu(new_node, rcu);
+		return rc;
 	}
 
 	/* If a flow exists with the same cookie, delete it */
-- 
2.5.1