netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3] dpaa2-eth: free already allocated channels on probe defer

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Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:50:57 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ioana.ciornei@....com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] dpaa2-eth: free already allocated channels on
 probe defer

From: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:21:52 +0200

> The setup_dpio() function tries to allocate a number of channels equal
> to the number of CPUs online. When there are not enough DPCON objects
> already probed, the function will return EPROBE_DEFER. When this
> happens, the already allocated channels are not freed. This results in
> the incapacity of properly probing the next time around.
> Fix this by freeing the channels on the error path.
> 
> Fixes: d7f5a9d89a55 ("dpaa2-eth: defer probe on object allocate")
> Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.