From: Bhargava Marreddy <bhargava.marreddy@broadcom.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
michael.chan@broadcom.com, pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com,
vsrama-krishna.nemani@broadcom.com, vikas.gupta@broadcom.com,
Bhargava Marreddy <bhargava.marreddy@broadcom.com>,
Dharmender Garg <dharmender.garg@broadcom.com>,
Rajashekar Hudumula <rajashekar.hudumula@broadcom.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] bnge: Fix resource leak in bnge_init_nic() error path
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 15:10:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805094022.15487-1-bhargava.marreddy@broadcom.com> (raw)
If bnge_init_chip() fails, bnge_init_nic() jumps to err_free_ring_grps
and returns immediately, skipping cleanup for RX ring pair buffers.
Remove the early return so execution falls through to
err_free_rx_ring_pair_bufs to properly free resources on error.
Fixes: 23df6aebf803 ("bng_en: Allocate stat contexts")
Signed-off-by: Bhargava Marreddy <bhargava.marreddy@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Dharmender Garg <dharmender.garg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Rajashekar Hudumula <rajashekar.hudumula@broadcom.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_netdev.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_netdev.c
index c2e865f8d9c..a4288f0258f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_netdev.c
@@ -2820,8 +2820,6 @@ static int bnge_init_nic(struct bnge_net *bn)
err_free_ring_grps:
bnge_free_ring_grps(bn);
- return rc;
-
err_free_rx_ring_pair_bufs:
bnge_free_rx_ring_pair_bufs(bn);
return rc;
--
2.47.3
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