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Message-ID: <632c5358.35eae.18c686e98f2.Coremail.alexious@zju.edu.cn>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:05:27 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
From: alexious@....edu.cn
To: "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: "Chris Snook" <chris.snook@...il.com>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@...hat.com>, "Simon Horman" <horms@...nel.org>, 
	"Yuanjun Gong" <ruc_gongyuanjun@....com>, 
	"Jie Yang" <jie.yang@...eros.com>, 
	"Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] [v2] ethernet: atheros: fix a memleak in
 atl1e_setup_ring_resources


> On Fri,  8 Dec 2023 16:23:14 +0800 Zhipeng Lu wrote:
> > v2: Setting tx_ring->tx_buffer to NULL after free.
> 
> Having closer look at this driver  - it tries to free both on close and
> remove, so seems like we do indeed have to NULL-out the pointer, sigh.
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
> > index 5935be190b9e..1bffe77439ac 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
> > @@ -866,6 +866,8 @@ static int atl1e_setup_ring_resources(struct atl1e_adapter *adapter)
> >  		netdev_err(adapter->netdev, "offset(%d) > ring size(%d) !!\n",
> >  			   offset, adapter->ring_size);
> >  		err = -1;
> > +		kfree(tx_ring->tx_buffer);
> > +		tx_ring->tx_buffer = NULL;
> >  		goto failed;
> 
> Please add a new jump target, tho, and move the freeing there.
> There's a small chance someone will add more code to this function
> and it will need to copy / paste this unwind.
> -- 

Thank you for your advice, I've send a v3 version of this patch.

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