[PATCH net V2 01/11] net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path

Mark Bloch
2025-08-25T14:35:18Z

From: Lama Kayal <lkayal@nvidia.com>

In the error path of hws_pool_buddy_init(), the buddy allocator cleanup
doesn't free the allocator structure itself, causing a memory leak.

Add the missing kfree() to properly release all allocated memory.

Fixes: c61afff94373 ("net/mlx5: HWS, added memory management handling")
Signed-off-by: Lama Kayal <lkayal@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c
index 7e37d6e9eb83..7b5071c3df36 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static int hws_pool_buddy_init(struct mlx5hws_pool *pool)
mlx5hws_err(pool->ctx, "Failed to create resource type: %d size %zu\n",
pool->type, pool->alloc_log_sz);
mlx5hws_buddy_cleanup(buddy);
+ kfree(buddy);
return -ENOMEM;
}

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2.34.1