Patch "devlink: Remove redundant free on error path" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "devlink: Remove redundant free on error path" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    devlink: Remove redundant free on error path

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     devlink-remove-redundant-free-on-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 18:38:30 CEST 2018
From: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:37:22 +0200
Subject: devlink: Remove redundant free on error path

From: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>


[ Upstream commit 7fe4d6dcbcb43fe0282d4213fc52be178bb30e91 ]

The current code performs unneeded free. Remove the redundant skb freeing
during the error path.

Fixes: 1555d204e743 ("devlink: Support for pipeline debug (dpipe)")
Signed-off-by: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/devlink.c |   16 ++++------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/devlink.c
+++ b/net/core/devlink.c
@@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@ send_done:
 	if (!nlh) {
 		err = devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb(&skb, info);
 		if (err)
-			goto err_skb_send_alloc;
+			return err;
 		goto send_done;
 	}
 
@@ -1785,7 +1785,6 @@ send_done:
 nla_put_failure:
 	err = -EMSGSIZE;
 err_table_put:
-err_skb_send_alloc:
 	genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr);
 	nlmsg_free(skb);
 	return err;
@@ -2051,7 +2050,7 @@ static int devlink_dpipe_entries_fill(st
 					     table->counters_enabled,
 					     &dump_ctx);
 	if (err)
-		goto err_entries_dump;
+		return err;
 
 send_done:
 	nlh = nlmsg_put(dump_ctx.skb, info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq,
@@ -2059,16 +2058,10 @@ send_done:
 	if (!nlh) {
 		err = devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb(&dump_ctx.skb, info);
 		if (err)
-			goto err_skb_send_alloc;
+			return err;
 		goto send_done;
 	}
 	return genlmsg_reply(dump_ctx.skb, info);
-
-err_entries_dump:
-err_skb_send_alloc:
-	genlmsg_cancel(dump_ctx.skb, dump_ctx.hdr);
-	nlmsg_free(dump_ctx.skb);
-	return err;
 }
 
 static int devlink_nl_cmd_dpipe_entries_get(struct sk_buff *skb,
@@ -2207,7 +2200,7 @@ send_done:
 	if (!nlh) {
 		err = devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb(&skb, info);
 		if (err)
-			goto err_skb_send_alloc;
+			return err;
 		goto send_done;
 	}
 	return genlmsg_reply(skb, info);
@@ -2215,7 +2208,6 @@ send_done:
 nla_put_failure:
 	err = -EMSGSIZE;
 err_table_put:
-err_skb_send_alloc:
 	genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr);
 	nlmsg_free(skb);
 	return err;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arkadis@mellanox.com are

queue-4.14/devlink-remove-redundant-free-on-error-path.patch
queue-4.14/team-fix-double-free-in-error-path.patch