[PATCH v2 1/4] net: airoha: Fix an error handling path in airoha_alloc_gdm_port()

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr
Thu May 8 07:52:25 PDT 2025


If register_netdev() fails, the error handling path of the probe will not
free the memory allocated by the previous airoha_metadata_dst_alloc() call
because port->dev->reg_state will not be NETREG_REGISTERED.

So, an explicit airoha_metadata_dst_free() call is needed in this case to
avoid a memory leak.

Fixes: af3cf757d5c9 ("net: airoha: Move DSA tag in DMA descriptor")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr>
---
Changes in v2:
  - New patch

Compile tested only.
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
index 16c7896f931f..af8c4015938c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
@@ -2873,7 +2873,15 @@ static int airoha_alloc_gdm_port(struct airoha_eth *eth,
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	return register_netdev(dev);
+	err = register_netdev(dev);
+	if (err)
+		goto free_metadata_dst;
+
+	return 0;
+
+free_metadata_dst:
+	airoha_metadata_dst_free(port);
+	return err;
 }
 
 static int airoha_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
-- 
2.49.0




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