From 592b6fd74afd6afb5a6ef238625fa6ced8338db2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yu Liao Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:22:36 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] net: thunderx: Fix the ACPI memory leak [ Upstream commit 661e5ebbafd26d9d2e3c749f5cf591e55c7364f5 ] The ACPI buffer memory (string.pointer) should be freed as the buffer is not used after returning from bgx_acpi_match_id(), free it to prevent memory leak. Fixes: 46b903a01c05 ("net, thunder, bgx: Add support to get MAC address from ACPI.") Signed-off-by: Yu Liao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123082237.1220521-1-liaoyu15@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c index c36fed9c3d73..daaffae1a89f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c @@ -1435,8 +1435,10 @@ static acpi_status bgx_acpi_match_id(acpi_handle handle, u32 lvl, return AE_OK; } - if (strncmp(string.pointer, bgx_sel, 4)) + if (strncmp(string.pointer, bgx_sel, 4)) { + kfree(string.pointer); return AE_OK; + } acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE, handle, 1, bgx_acpi_register_phy, NULL, bgx, NULL);