netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: fix error paths in ethnl_set

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Date:   Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:31:38 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        LiLiang <liali@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: fix error paths in ethnl_set_channels()

On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:09:21 +0100 Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:08:10AM +0100, Ivan Vecera wrote:
> > Fix two error paths in ethnl_set_channels() to avoid lock-up caused
> > but unreleased RTNL.
> > 
> > Fixes: e19c591eafad ("ethtool: set device channel counts with CHANNELS_SET request")
> > Cc: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
> > Reported-by: LiLiang <liali@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
>
> Oh, the joys of mindless copy and paste... :-(

I wish sparse was able to catch rtnl_lock leaks. I tried to annotate
it a couple of weeks back but couldn't get it to work well even within
rtnetlink.c

> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>

Applied, thanks!