netdev - [PATCH] net/mlx5e: Fix memleak in mlx5e_create_l2_table

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Message-Id: <20201221112731.32545-1-dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn>
Date:   Mon, 21 Dec 2020 19:27:31 +0800
From:   Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@....edu.cn>
To:     dinghao.liu@....edu.cn, kjlu@....edu
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.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, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: Fix memleak in mlx5e_create_l2_table_groups

When mlx5_create_flow_group() fails, ft->g should be
freed just like when kvzalloc() fails. The caller of
mlx5e_create_l2_table_groups() does not catch this
issue on failure, which leads to memleak.

Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@....edu.cn>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs.c
index fa8149f6eb08..72de1009b104 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs.c
@@ -1390,6 +1390,7 @@ static int mlx5e_create_l2_table_groups(struct mlx5e_l2_table *l2_table)
 	ft->g[ft->num_groups] = NULL;
 	mlx5e_destroy_groups(ft);
 	kvfree(in);
+	kfree(ft->g);
 
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.17.1