[PATCH 6/9] staging: octeon: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree()
David Daney
ddaney at caviumnetworks.com
Mon Sep 27 18:08:38 UTC 2010
On 09/26/2010 02:58 AM, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> It is not guaranteed that free_netdev() is macro.
> Freeing netdev without free_netdev() leads to net, tx leaks.
> I might lead to dereferencing freed pointer.
>
There is no Signed-off-by header here.
Please resend the patch with the proper headers.
Other than that, it looks good to me. You can add:
Acked-by: David Daney <ddaney at caviumnetworks.com>
Thanks.
> ---
> drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
> index fb568a9..a8f780e 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
> @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ static int __init cvm_oct_init_module(void)
>
> if (register_netdev(dev)< 0) {
> pr_err("Failed to register ethernet device for POW\n");
> - kfree(dev);
> + free_netdev(dev);
> } else {
> cvm_oct_device[CVMX_PIP_NUM_INPUT_PORTS] = dev;
> pr_info("%s: POW send group %d, receive group %d\n",
> @@ -756,12 +756,12 @@ static int __init cvm_oct_init_module(void)
> }
>
> if (!dev->netdev_ops) {
> - kfree(dev);
> + free_netdev(dev);
> } else if (register_netdev(dev)< 0) {
> pr_err("Failed to register ethernet device "
> "for interface %d, port %d\n",
> interface, priv->port);
> - kfree(dev);
> + free_netdev(dev);
> } else {
> cvm_oct_device[priv->port] = dev;
> fau -=
> @@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ static void __exit cvm_oct_cleanup_module(void)
>
> cvm_oct_tx_shutdown_dev(dev);
> unregister_netdev(dev);
> - kfree(dev);
> + free_netdev(dev);
> cvm_oct_device[port] = NULL;
> }
> }
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