Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: Fix memleak in ethoc_probe

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Dec 23 2020 - 20:42:45 EST


On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:17:29 -0800 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 12/23/2020 1:11 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:00:44 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:32:18PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:33:04 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:06:12PM +0800, Dinghao Liu wrote:
> >>>>> When mdiobus_register() fails, priv->mdio allocated
> >>>>> by mdiobus_alloc() has not been freed, which leads
> >>>>> to memleak.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>
> >>>> Fixes: bfa49cfc5262 ("net/ethoc: fix null dereference on error exit path")
> >>>>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Ooof, I applied without looking at your email and I added:
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: e7f4dc3536a4 ("mdio: Move allocation of interrupts into core")
> >>
> >> [Goes and looks deeper]
> >>
> >> Yes, commit e7f4dc3536a4 looks like it introduced the original
> >> problem. bfa49cfc5262 just moved to code around a bit.
> >>
> >> Does patchwork not automagically add Fixes: lines from full up emails?
> >> That seems like a reasonable automation.
> >
> > Looks like it's been a TODO for 3 years now:
> >
> > https://github.com/getpatchwork/patchwork/issues/151
>
> It was proposed before, but rejected. You can have your local patchwork
> admin take care of that for you though and add custom tags:
>
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/patchwork/2017-January/003910.html

Konstantin, would you be willing to mod the kernel.org instance of
patchwork to populate Fixes tags in the generated mboxes?