[PATCH net] net: ethernet: mtk_ppe: Fix rhashtable leak in mtk_ppe_init error paths

Wayen Yan win847 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 22:48:13 PDT 2026


In mtk_ppe_init(), when accounting is enabled, the error paths for
dmam_alloc_coherent(mib) and devm_kzalloc(acct) failures return NULL
directly, bypassing the err_free_l2_flows label that destroys the
rhashtable initialized earlier.

While this leak only occurs during probe (not runtime) and the leaked
memory is minimal (an empty rhash table), fixing it ensures proper
error path cleanup consistency.

Fix by changing the two return NULL statements to goto err_free_l2_flows.

Fixes: 603ea5e7ffa7 ("net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix memory leak in error path")
Signed-off-by: Wayen Yan <win847 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c
index 18279e2a70..8451dc3fd0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ struct mtk_ppe *mtk_ppe_init(struct mtk_eth *eth, void __iomem *base, int index)
 		mib = dmam_alloc_coherent(ppe->dev, MTK_PPE_ENTRIES * sizeof(*mib),
 					  &ppe->mib_phys, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!mib)
-			return NULL;
+			goto err_free_l2_flows;
 
 		ppe->mib_table = mib;
 
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ struct mtk_ppe *mtk_ppe_init(struct mtk_eth *eth, void __iomem *base, int index)
 				    GFP_KERNEL);
 
 		if (!acct)
-			return NULL;
+			goto err_free_l2_flows;
 
 		ppe->acct_table = acct;
 	}
-- 
2.51.0





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