[PATCH] net/ice: fix PHY capabilities buffer leak

Anurag Mandal anurag.mandal at intel.com
Wed Sep 30 18:52:30 CEST 2026


ice_phy_conf_link() allocates the PHY capabilities buffer and only
then validates hw->port_info.
If hw->port_info is NULL,it returns directly without freeing
PHY capabilities buffer causing the buffer leak.

This patch fixes the issue by moving the hw->port_info NULL check
above the PHY capabilities buffer allocation.

Fixes: 36afbc269081 ("net/ice: support link speed change")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Anurag Mandal <anurag.mandal at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
index 2c5ffe07f3..dd23a7555c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
@@ -5253,14 +5253,14 @@ ice_phy_conf_link(struct ice_hw *hw,
 	u64 phy_type_low = 0;
 	u64 phy_type_high = 0;
 
+	if (!pi)
+		return -EIO;
+
 	phy_caps = (struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *)
 		ice_malloc(hw, sizeof(*phy_caps));
 	if (!phy_caps)
 		return ICE_ERR_NO_MEMORY;
 
-	if (!pi)
-		return -EIO;
-
 
 	if (ice_fw_supports_report_dflt_cfg(pi->hw))
 		err = ice_aq_get_phy_caps(pi, false, ICE_AQC_REPORT_DFLT_CFG,
-- 
2.34.1



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