Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: net: ionic: fix a memory leak bug
From: Jiri Pirko
Date: Wed Nov 06 2024 - 10:32:01 EST
Regarding subject. "fix a memory leak bug" sounds just too vague. Try to
be more specific. "add missed debugfs cleanup to ionic_probe() error path"
perhaps? IDK.
Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 09:53:07AM CET, liangwentao@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>From: Wentao Liang <Wentao_liang_g@xxxxxxx>
>
>In line 334, the ionic_setup_one() creates a debugfs entry for
>ionic upon successful execution. However, the ionic_probe() does
>not release the dentry before returning, resulting in a memory
>leak. To fix this bug, we add the ionic_debugfs_del_dev() before
>line 397 to release the resources before the function returns.
Please don't use line numbers in patch description.
>
>Fixes: 0de38d9f1dba ("ionic: extract common bits from ionic_probe")
>Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <liangwentao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Code looks okay.
>---
> drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_bus_pci.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_bus_pci.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_bus_pci.c
>index b93791d6b593..f5dc876eb500 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_bus_pci.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_bus_pci.c
>@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ static int ionic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> err_out_pci:
> ionic_dev_teardown(ionic);
> ionic_clear_pci(ionic);
>+ ionic_debugfs_del_dev(ionic);
> err_out:
> mutex_destroy(&ionic->dev_cmd_lock);
> ionic_devlink_free(ionic);
>--
>2.42.0.windows.2
>
>