netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: Fix potential memory leak caused in error handling

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Message-ID: <20200612204632.GB69216@lunn.ch>
Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 22:46:32 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, wu000273@....edu,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Enrico Weigelt <info@...ux.net>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: Fix potential memory leak caused in error
 handling

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:06:54PM -0500, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> In ethoc_probe, a failure of mdiobus_register() does not release
> the memory allocated by mdiobus_alloc. The patch fixes this issue.

Hi Aditya

Please improve the Subject: line to indicate which driver you are
fixing.

A Fixes: tag would also be nice.

  Andrew