Re: [PATCH net v1] net: acenic: fix an issue about leak related system resources
From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Apr 27 2020 - 06:40:13 EST
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 4:40 PM Dejin Zheng <zhengdejin5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> the function ace_allocate_descriptors() and ace_init() can fail in
> the acenic_probe_one(), The related system resources were not
> released then. so change the error handling to fix it.
...
> @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static int acenic_probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> #endif
>
> if (ace_allocate_descriptors(dev))
> - goto fail_free_netdev;
> + goto fail_uninit;
Not sure.
The code is quite old and requires a lot of refactoring.
Briefly looking the error path there is quite twisted.
> @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ static int acenic_probe_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> #endif
>
> if (ace_init(dev))
> - goto fail_free_netdev;
> + goto fail_uninit;
This change seems incorrect, the ace_init() calls ace_init_cleanup() on error.
So, your change makes it call the cleanup() twice.
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko