Re: [PATCH net] sfc: fix potential memleak in __ef100_hard_start_xmit()

[Paolo Abeni]

Hello,

On Fri, 2022-11-18 at 19:11 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 09:15:43AM +0000, Martin Habets wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 03:05:27PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > Please take a look __ef100_enqueue_skb() and see if it frees SKB on
> > > error or not. If not, please fix it.
> > 
> > That function looks ok to me, but I appreciate the extra eyes on it.
> 
> __ef100_enqueue_skb() has the following check in error path:
> 
>   498 err:
>   499         efx_enqueue_unwind(tx_queue, old_insert_count);
>   500         if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(skb))
>   501                 dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
>   502
> 
> The issue is that skb is never error or null here and this "if" is
> actually always true and can be deleted.

I think that such additional change could be suite for a different net-
next patch, while this -net patch could land as is, @Leon: do you
agree?

Thanks!

Paolo