[PATCH] net/bnxt: fix a memory leak when new malloc fail
    Weiguo Li 
    liwg06 at foxmail.com
       
    Fri Feb 18 19:05:18 CET 2022
    
    
  
When new memory is not available and the memory "ctx" allocated
beforehand was not assigned to anywhere, so "ctx" should be freed,
otherwise will cause a memory leak.
Fixes: b4f740511655 ("net/bnxt: remove unnecessary return check")
Signed-off-by: Weiguo Li <liwg06 at foxmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_hwrm.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_hwrm.c b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_hwrm.c
index b4aeec593e..4993111ccf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_hwrm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_hwrm.c
@@ -5374,6 +5374,7 @@ int bnxt_hwrm_func_backing_store_qcaps(struct bnxt *bp)
 			    RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
 	if (!ctx_pg) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
+		rte_free(ctx);
 		goto ctx_err;
 	}
 	for (i = 0; i < tqm_rings; i++, ctx_pg++)
-- 
2.25.1
    
    
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