Re: [PATCH 1/2] octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak

[Bo Sun]

On 2025-09-29 18:11, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 03:15:04PM +0800, Bo Sun wrote:
> > The bitmap allocated with bitmap_zalloc() in otx2vf_probe() was not
> > released in otx2vf_remove(). Unbinding and rebinding the driver 
> > therefore
> > triggers a kmemleak warning:
> >
> >     unreferenced object (size 8):
> >       backtrace:
> >         bitmap_zalloc
> >         otx2vf_probe
> >
> > Call bitmap_free() in the remove path to fix the leak.
> >
> > Fixes: efabce290151 ("octeontx2-pf: AF_XDP zero copy receive support")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Bo Sun <bo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For reference, as a fix for code present in net, this series
> should be targeted at net, like this:
>
> Subject: [PATCH net 1/2] ...
>
> See: https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-netdev.html

Thanks for pointing this out.
I’ll resend v2 for the net tree with the correct subject prefix.

Best regards,
Bo