Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: fix memory leak in cxgb4_init_ethtool_filters() error path

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 05:47:46PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> …
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c
> > @@ -2270,6 +2270,7 @@ int cxgb4_init_ethtool_filters(struct adapter *adap)
> >  		eth_filter->port[i].bmap = bitmap_zalloc(nentries, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  		if (!eth_filter->port[i].bmap) {
> >  			ret = -ENOMEM;
> > +			kvfree(eth_filter->port[i].loc_array);
> >  			goto free_eth_finfo;
> >  		}
> >  	}
> 
> How do you think about to move the shown error code assignment behind the mentioned label
> (so that another bit of duplicate source code could be avoided)?

Hi Markus,

If you mean something like the following. Then I agree that it
is both in keeping with the existing error handling in this function
and addresses the problem at hand.

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c
index 7f3f5afa864f..df26d3388c00 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c
@@ -2270,13 +2270,15 @@ int cxgb4_init_ethtool_filters(struct adapter *adap)
                eth_filter->port[i].bmap = bitmap_zalloc(nentries, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!eth_filter->port[i].bmap) {
                        ret = -ENOMEM;
-                       goto free_eth_finfo;
+                       goto free_eth_finfo_loc_array;
                }
        }

        adap->ethtool_filters = eth_filter;
        return 0;

+free_eth_finfo_loc_array:
+       kvfree(eth_filter->port[i].loc_array);
 free_eth_finfo:
        while (i-- > 0) {
                bitmap_free(eth_filter->port[i].bmap);


> 
> Regards,
> Markus
>