netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed

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Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:40:09 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Gencen Gan <gangecen@...t.edu.cn>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     hust-os-kernel-patches@...glegroups.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed

Hi,

On Wed, 2023-04-19 at 14:58 +0800, Gencen Gan wrote:
> From: Gan Gecen <gangecen@...t.edu.cn>
> 
> After failing to verify configuration, it returns directly without 
> releasing link, which may cause memory leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gan Gecen <gangecen@...t.edu.cn>

Please include a suitable Fixes tag and specify the target tree in the
subj - see the documentation for the details.

More importantly, skimming over the relevant code I think that at least
a netdev is still leaked in the relevant error path.

Generally speaking the whole code of this driver is quite "suboptimal"
and looks unmainatained since at least ~15y, just receiving tree-wide
related changes.

I'm wondering if we could simply remove the whole driver?

Thanks

Paolo