netdev - Re: [PATCH] octeontx2-af: fix memory leak of lmac and lmac->name

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jan 2021 22:31:30 +0530
From:   Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>,
        Linu Cherian <lcherian@...vell.com>,
        Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>,
        Jerin Jacob <jerinj@...vell.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Nithya Mani <nmani@...vell.com>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] octeontx2-af: fix memory leak of lmac and lmac->name

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 6:11 PM Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> Currently the error return paths don't kfree lmac and lmac->name
> leading to some memory leaks.  Fix this by adding two error return
> paths that kfree these objects
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
> Fixes: 1463f382f58d ("octeontx2-af: Add support for CGX link management")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---

Thanks for the fix, looks good to me.

Sunil.