netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/sonic: Fix some resource leaks in error handling paths

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sun, 10 May 2020 09:52:24 +1000 (AEST)
From:   Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
cc:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/sonic: Fix some resource leaks in error handling
 paths

On Fri, 8 May 2020, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

> On Fri,  8 May 2020 19:25:57 +0200 Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > @@ -527,8 +531,9 @@ static int mac_sonic_platform_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  	struct sonic_local* lp = netdev_priv(dev);
> >  
> >  	unregister_netdev(dev);
> > -	dma_free_coherent(lp->device, SIZEOF_SONIC_DESC * SONIC_BUS_SCALE(lp->dma_bitmode),
> > -	                  lp->descriptors, lp->descriptors_laddr);
> > +	dma_free_coherent(lp->device,
> > +			  SIZEOF_SONIC_DESC * SONIC_BUS_SCALE(lp->dma_bitmode),
> > +			  lp->descriptors, lp->descriptors_laddr);
> >  	free_netdev(dev);
> >  
> >  	return 0;
> 
> This is a white-space only change, right? Since this is a fix we should
> avoid making cleanups which are not strictly necessary.
> 

I think it is harmless if it doesn't create any merge conflicts. Any merge 
conflict created by the whitespace change would have happened anyway, 
because all of the changes in this patch are very closely related. That's 
why I was happy to put a 'reviewed-by' tag on this.