[Bionic PATCH 15/19] ibmvnic: Fix NAPI structures memory leak

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Tue Feb 27 15:12:11 UTC 2018


From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748517

This memory is allocated during initialization but never freed,
so do that now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 6e4842ddfc2b08931ebd6c0bc95322dd56e5232b)
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index a1d2a7d59437..a14e2a36f319 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -825,6 +825,8 @@ static void release_resources(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter)
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	kfree(adapter->napi);
+	adapter->napi = NULL;
 
 	release_login_rsp_buffer(adapter);
 }
-- 
2.15.1





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