Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: felix: Fix memory leak in felix_setup_mmio_filtering

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Dec 08 2021 - 18:10:39 EST


On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 18:13:32 +0000 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 07:05:09PM +0100, José Expósito wrote:
> > Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1492897 ("Resource leak")
> > Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1492899 ("Resource leak")
> > Signed-off-by: José Expósito <jose.exposito89@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Impossible memory leak, I might add, because DSA will error out much
> soon if there isn't any CPU port defined:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.15.7/source/net/dsa/dsa2.c#L374
> I don't think I should have added the "if (cpu < 0)" check at all, but
> then it would have raised other flags, about BIT(negative number) or
> things like that. I don't know what's the best way to deal with this?
>
> Anyway, in case we find no better alternative:
>
> Fixes: 8d5f7954b7c8 ("net: dsa: felix: break at first CPU port during init and teardown")
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>

If this is the way to go please repost with the tags added
and a commit message.