netdev - Re: [PATCH] intel/i40e: Fix potential memory leak in i40e_init_recovery

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Date:   Tue, 6 Dec 2022 12:02:35 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Yuan Can <yuancan@...wei.com>
Cc:     jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
        alice.michael@...el.com, piotr.marczak@...el.com,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel/i40e: Fix potential memory leak in
 i40e_init_recovery_mode()

On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 09:26:13AM +0000, Yuan Can wrote:
> If i40e_vsi_mem_alloc() failed in i40e_init_recovery_mode(), the pf will be
> freed with the pf->vsi leaked.
> Fix by free pf->vsi in the error handling path.
> 
> Fixes: 4ff0ee1af016 ("i40e: Introduce recovery mode support")
> Signed-off-by: Yuan Can <yuancan@...wei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

The patch title needs to be "[PATCH net]..." 

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
> index b5dcd15ced36..d23081c224d6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
> @@ -15536,6 +15536,7 @@ static int i40e_init_recovery_mode(struct i40e_pf *pf, struct i40e_hw *hw)
>  	pci_disable_pcie_error_reporting(pf->pdev);
>  	pci_release_mem_regions(pf->pdev);
>  	pci_disable_device(pf->pdev);
> +	kfree(pf->vsi);
>  	kfree(pf);
>  
>  	return err;

The change is ok, but it is worth to cleanup error flow of i40e_probe and i40e_remove
as they are not really in the same order.

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>