From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752648AbeEJVrt (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2018 17:47:49 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:37774 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752298AbeEJVrs (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2018 17:47:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 17:47:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20180510.174746.56190527987284941.davem@davemloft.net> To: christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Cc: tariqt@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/mlx4_en: Fix an error handling path in 'mlx4_en_init_netdev()' From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20180510070604.19635-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> References: <20180510070604.19635-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 25.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christophe JAILLET Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 09:06:04 +0200 > If an error occurs, 'mlx4_en_destroy_netdev()' is called. > It then calls 'mlx4_en_free_resources()' which does the needed resources > cleanup. > > So, doing some explicit kfree in the error handling path would lead to > some double kfree. > > Simplify code to avoid such a case. > > Fixes: 67f8b1dcb9ee ("net/mlx4_en: Refactor the XDP forwarding rings scheme") > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.