Hi Martin,

Thanks for your fix!

On 01/02/2017 8:35 AM, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
In mlx4_en_update_priv(), dst->tx_ring[t] and dst->tx_cq[t]
are over-written by src->tx_ring[t] and src->tx_cq[t] without
first calling kfree.

One of the reproducible code paths is by doing 'ethtool -L'.

The fix is to do the kfree in mlx4_en_free_resources().

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Fixes: ec25bc04ed8e ("net/mlx4_en: Add resilience in low memory systems")
Cc: Eugenia Emantayev <euge...@mellanox.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <sae...@mellanox.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com>
---
  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 8 ++------
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
index 761f8b12399c..3abcead208d2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -2042,6 +2042,8 @@ static void mlx4_en_free_resources(struct mlx4_en_priv 
*priv)
                        if (priv->tx_cq[t] && priv->tx_cq[t][i])
                                mlx4_en_destroy_cq(priv, &priv->tx_cq[t][i]);
                }
+               kfree(priv->tx_ring[t]);
+               kfree(priv->tx_cq[t]);
        }
for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++) {
@@ -2214,7 +2216,6 @@ void mlx4_en_destroy_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
  {
        struct mlx4_en_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
        struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev = priv->mdev;
-       int t;
en_dbg(DRV, priv, "Destroying netdev on port:%d\n", priv->port); @@ -2248,11 +2249,6 @@ void mlx4_en_destroy_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
        mlx4_en_free_resources(priv);
        mutex_unlock(&mdev->state_lock);
- for (t = 0; t < MLX4_EN_NUM_TX_TYPES; t++) {
-               kfree(priv->tx_ring[t]);
-               kfree(priv->tx_cq[t]);
-       }
-
        free_netdev(dev);
  }
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com>

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