From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tariqt@mellanox.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eranbe@mellanox.com, kamalh@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_core: Fix to clean devlink resources
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 01:41:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160922.014143.604703967863844795.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474372531-27120-1-git-send-email-tariqt@mellanox.com>
From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:55:31 +0300
> From: Kamal Heib <kamalh@mellanox.com>
>
> This patch cleans devlink resources by calling devlink_port_unregister()
> to avoid the following issues:
>
> - Kernel panic when triggering reset flow.
> - Memory leak due to unfreed resources in mlx4_init_port_info().
>
> Fixes: 09d4d087cd48 ("mlx4: Implement devlink interface")
> Signed-off-by: Kamal Heib <kamalh@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
> ---
> Please push it to -stable >= 4.6 as well. Thanks.
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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2016-09-20 11:55 [PATCH net] net/mlx4_core: Fix to clean devlink resources Tariq Toukan
2016-09-22 5:41 ` David Miller [this message]
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