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From: Prathamesh Deshpande <prathameshdeshpande7@gmail.com>
To: leon@kernel.org
Cc: dledford@redhat.com, haggaie@mellanox.com, jgg@ziepe.ca,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	prathameshdeshpande7@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: Fix memory leak in GSI QP destroy error path
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:04:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331180531.16845-1-prathameshdeshpande7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260331134508.GD814676@unreal>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 04:45:08PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> GSI QP are different from other "best-effort" failures. It MUST to fail.
> We are intentionally leaking resources here.

Hi Leon,

Thank you for the explanation.

I understand now that for GSI QPs, the hardware constraints make a
memory leak preferable to the risk of an inconsistency in this
failure path.

I'll keep this in mind for future mlx5 cleanup patches.

Thanks,
Prathamesh

      reply	other threads:[~2026-03-31 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-31  0:48 [PATCH] IB/mlx5: Fix memory leak in GSI QP destroy error path Prathamesh Deshpande
2026-03-31 13:45 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-03-31 18:04   ` Prathamesh Deshpande [this message]

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