Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH net] net: batman-adv: Fix possible memleaks when fail to register_netdevice

From: Sven Eckelmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 09:23:09 +0200

On Dienstag, 25. April 2017 20:03:20 CEST [email-masked] wrote:
> From: Gao Feng <[email-masked]>
> 
> Because the func batadv_softif_init_late allocate some resources and
> it would be invoked in register_netdevice. So we need to invoke the
> func batadv_softif_free instead of free_netdev to cleanup when fail
> to register_netdevice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
> index d042c99..90bf990 100644
> --- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
> +++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
> @@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ struct net_device *batadv_softif_create(struct net *net, const char *name)
>  	if (ret < 0) {
>  		pr_err("Unable to register the batman interface '%s': %i\n",
>  		       name, ret);
> -		free_netdev(soft_iface);
> +		batadv_softif_free(soft_iface);
>  		return NULL;
>  	}

It looks to me like this change is invalid after David's change [1]. Can you
confirm that?

Thanks,
	Sven

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=cf124db566e6b036b8bcbe8decbed740bdfac8c6