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Message-ID: <7c3bb6e8-6658-1a73-b5c7-b70bc6255576@mellanox.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 Jun 2020 19:30:15 +0300
From:   Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Boris Pismenny <borisp@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] net/mlx5e: fix memory leak of tls



On 6/30/2020 6:16 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The error return path when create_singlethread_workqueue fails currently
> does not kfree tls and leads to a memory leak. Fix this by kfree'ing
> tls before returning -ENOMEM.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
> Fixes: 1182f3659357 ("net/mlx5e: kTLS, Add kTLS RX HW offload support")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/tls.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/tls.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/tls.c
> index 99beb928feff..fee991f5ee7c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/tls.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/tls.c
> @@ -232,8 +232,10 @@ int mlx5e_tls_init(struct mlx5e_priv *priv)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>   
>   	tls->rx_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("mlx5e_tls_rx");
> -	if (!tls->rx_wq)
> +	if (!tls->rx_wq) {
> +		kfree(tls);
>   		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
>   
>   	priv->tls = tls;
>   	return 0;
> 

Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Thanks.