netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: nixge: fix potential memory leak in nixge

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Date:   Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:49:51 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Lu Wei <luwei32@...wei.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Alex Williams <alex.williams@...com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Moritz Fischer <mdf@...nel.org>,
        Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: nixge: fix potential memory leak in nixge_probe()

> If some processes in nixge_probe() fail, free_netdev(dev)
> needs to be called to aviod a memory leak.

* Would you like to avoid a typo in this change description?

* An imperative wording can be preferred here, can't it?
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=6ba1b005ffc388c2aeaddae20da29e4810dea298#n151

Regards,
Markus