6.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Lama Kayal lkayal@nvidia.com
[ Upstream commit 2c0a959bebdc1ada13cf9a8242f177c5400299e6 ]
In the error path of hws_pool_buddy_init(), the buddy allocator cleanup doesn't free the allocator structure itself, causing a memory leak.
Add the missing kfree() to properly release all allocated memory.
Fixes: c61afff94373 ("net/mlx5: HWS, added memory management handling") Signed-off-by: Lama Kayal lkayal@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan tariqt@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch mbloch@nvidia.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250825143435.598584-2-mbloch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c index 7e37d6e9eb836..7b5071c3df368 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static int hws_pool_buddy_init(struct mlx5hws_pool *pool) mlx5hws_err(pool->ctx, "Failed to create resource type: %d size %zu\n", pool->type, pool->alloc_log_sz); mlx5hws_buddy_cleanup(buddy); + kfree(buddy); return -ENOMEM; }