Re: [v2 PATCH] net: fec: free fec queue when fec_probe() fails or fec_drv_remove()

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu May 23 2024 - 09:02:15 EST


On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 02:29:20PM +0800, Xiaolei Wang wrote:
> commit 59d0f7465644 ("net: fec: init multi queue date structure")
> allocates multiple queues, which should be cleaned up when fec_probe()
> fails or fec_drv_remove(), otherwise a memory leak will occur.
>
> unreferenced object 0xffffff8010350000 (size 8192):
> comm "kworker/u8:3", pid 39, jiffies 4294893562
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 06 8a c0 ff ff ff .........P......
> e0 6f 06 8a c0 ff ff ff 00 50 06 8a c0 ff ff ff .o.......P......
> backtrace (crc f1b8b79f):
> [<0000000057d2c6ae>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
> [<000000003c413e60>] kmalloc_trace+0x2f8/0x460
> [<00000000663f64e6>] fec_probe+0x1364/0x3a04
> [<0000000024d7e427>] platform_probe+0xc4/0x198
> [<00000000293aa124>] really_probe+0x17c/0x4f0
> [<00000000dfd1e0f3>] __driver_probe_device+0x158/0x2c4
>
> Fixes: 59d0f7465644 ("net: fec: init multi queue date structure")
> Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Wang <xiaolei.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Please read what i suggested. It is good to have code which is
symmetric. probe() and remove() should be opposites of each other.
probe() calls fec_enet_init(). So it would be good to have remove()
call fec_enet_deinit() which does the opposite. We then have symmetry.

Is there anything else in fec_enet_init() which needs undoing? A rule
of thumb: If you find a bug, look around, there might be others
nearby. Maybe leaking the queues is not the only problem?

Andrew