Re: [PATCH v2 net] cxgb4: fix memory leak in cxgb4_init_ethtool_filters() error path

[Jacob Keller]

On 4/14/2025 10:06 AM, Abdun Nihaal wrote:
> In the for loop used to allocate the loc_array and bmap for each port, a
> memory leak is possible when the allocation for loc_array succeeds,
> but the allocation for bmap fails. This is because when the control flow
> goes to the label free_eth_finfo, only the allocations starting from
> (i-1)th iteration are freed.
> 
> Fix that by freeing the loc_array in the bmap allocation error path.
> 
> Fixes: d915c299f1da ("cxgb4: add skeleton for ethtool n-tuple filters")
> Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <abdun.nihaal@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> - Added the Reviewed-by tag from Simon Horman
> - Also set the branch target as net instead of net-next as it is a fix
> 
> v1 link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20250409054323.48557-1-abdun.nihaal@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c
> index 7f3f5afa864f..1546c3db08f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ethtool.c
> @@ -2270,6 +2270,7 @@ int cxgb4_init_ethtool_filters(struct adapter *adap)
>  		eth_filter->port[i].bmap = bitmap_zalloc(nentries, GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!eth_filter->port[i].bmap) {
>  			ret = -ENOMEM;
> +			kvfree(eth_filter->port[i].loc_array);
>  			goto free_eth_finfo;
>  		}
>  	}


Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>