From: Abdun Nihaal Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:18:42 +0000 (+0530) Subject: sfc: fix potential memory leak in efx_mae_process_mport() X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc4~24^2~24 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=46a499aaf8c27476fd05e800f3e947bfd71aa724;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git sfc: fix potential memory leak in efx_mae_process_mport() In efx_mae_enumerate_mports(), memory allocated for mae_mport_desc is passed as a argument to efx_mae_process_mport(), but when the error path in efx_mae_process_mport() gets executed, the memory allocated for desc gets leaked. Fix that by freeing the memory allocation before returning error. Fixes: a6a15aca4207 ("sfc: enumerate mports in ef100") Acked-by: Edward Cree Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251023141844.25847-1-nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mae.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mae.c index 6fd0c1e9a7d5..7cfd9000f79d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mae.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mae.c @@ -1090,6 +1090,9 @@ void efx_mae_remove_mport(void *desc, void *arg) kfree(mport); } +/* + * Takes ownership of @desc, even if it returns an error + */ static int efx_mae_process_mport(struct efx_nic *efx, struct mae_mport_desc *desc) { @@ -1100,6 +1103,7 @@ static int efx_mae_process_mport(struct efx_nic *efx, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mport)) { netif_err(efx, drv, efx->net_dev, "mport with id %u does exist!!!\n", desc->mport_id); + kfree(desc); return -EEXIST; }