Thread (5 messages) flat view 5 messages, 2 authors, 2012-05-01

[net 2/3] ixgbe: Fix a memory leak in IEEE DCB

From: Jeff Kirsher <hidden>
Date: 2012-05-01 01:58:17
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Alexander Duyck <redacted>

The driver was freeing memory in shutdown instead of remove.  As a result
we were leaking memory if IEEE DCB was enabled and we loaded/unloaded the
driver.  This change moves the freeing of the memory into the remove
routine where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <redacted>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <redacted>
Tested-by: Ross Brattain <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index a7f3cd8..88f6b2e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -4873,10 +4873,6 @@ static int __ixgbe_shutdown(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool *enable_wake)
 	}
 
 	ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme(adapter);
-#ifdef CONFIG_DCB
-	kfree(adapter->ixgbe_ieee_pfc);
-	kfree(adapter->ixgbe_ieee_ets);
-#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
 	retval = pci_save_state(pdev);
@@ -7224,6 +7220,11 @@ static void __devexit ixgbe_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 
 	ixgbe_release_hw_control(adapter);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DCB
+	kfree(adapter->ixgbe_ieee_pfc);
+	kfree(adapter->ixgbe_ieee_ets);
+
+#endif
 	iounmap(adapter->hw.hw_addr);
 	pci_release_selected_regions(pdev, pci_select_bars(pdev,
 				     IORESOURCE_MEM));
-- 
1.7.7.6
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