Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 3/3] igb: fix nvm.ops.read() error handling

From: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 18:28:57 +0200

On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 09:10:58AM -0700, Tony Nguyen wrote:
> From: Aleksandr Loktionov <[email-masked]>

Hey Aleksandr,

> 
> Add error handling into igb_set_eeprom() function, in case
> nvm.ops.read() fails just quit with error code asap.
> 
> Fixes: 9d5c824399de ("igb: PCI-Express 82575 Gigabit Ethernet driver")
> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <[email-masked]>
> Tested-by: Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <[email-masked]> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
> index 7d60da1b7bf4..99b6b21caa02 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
> @@ -822,6 +822,8 @@ static int igb_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev,
>  		 */
>  		ret_val = hw->nvm.ops.read(hw, last_word, 1,
>  				   &eeprom_buff[last_word - first_word]);
> +		if (ret_val)
> +			goto out;
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Device's eeprom is always little-endian, word addressable */
> @@ -839,7 +841,7 @@ static int igb_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev,
>  	/* Update the checksum if nvm write succeeded */
>  	if (ret_val == 0)
>  		hw->nvm.ops.update(hw);
> -
> +out:
>  	igb_set_fw_version(adapter);

why would you want to call the above in case of fail? just move out below
and stick only to kfree() and return error code.

>  	kfree(eeprom_buff);
>  	return ret_val;
> -- 
> 2.38.1