Re: [PATCH][next] ionic: fix memory leak of object 'lid'

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jul 22 2020 - 21:10:47 EST


From: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:40:03 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently when netdev fails to allocate the error return path
> fails to free the allocated object 'lid'. Fix this by setting
> err to the return error code and jumping to a new label that
> performs the kfree of lid before returning.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
> Fixes: 4b03b27349c0 ("ionic: get MTU from lif identity")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.