Re: [PATCH net 1/1] octeontx2-af: CGX: fix bitmap leaks

Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-23T01:22:28Z

On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:31:12 +0800 Bo Sun wrote:
> The RX/TX flow-control bitmaps (rx_fc_pfvf_bmap and tx_fc_pfvf_bmap)
> are allocated by cgx_lmac_init() but never freed in cgx_lmac_exit().
> Unbinding and rebinding the driver therefore triggers kmemleak:
>
> unreferenced object (size 16):
> backtrace:
> rvu_alloc_bitmap
> cgx_probe
>
> Free both bitmaps during teardown.
>
> Fixes: e740003874ed ("octeontx2-af: Flow control resource management")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bo Sun <bo@mboxify.com>

Looks like rvu_free_bitmap() exists. We should probably use it?

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cgx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cgx.c
> index ec0e11c77cbf..f56e6782c4de 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cgx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cgx.c
> @@ -1823,6 +1823,8 @@ static int cgx_lmac_exit(struct cgx *cgx)
> cgx->mac_ops->mac_pause_frm_config(cgx, lmac->lmac_id, false);
> cgx_configure_interrupt(cgx, lmac, lmac->lmac_id, true);
> kfree(lmac->mac_to_index_bmap.bmap);
> + kfree(lmac->rx_fc_pfvf_bmap.bmap);
> + kfree(lmac->tx_fc_pfvf_bmap.bmap);
> kfree(lmac->name);
> kfree(lmac);
> }
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