Commit 2c0a959b authored by Lama Kayal's avatar Lama Kayal Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path 



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: c61afff9 ("net/mlx5: HWS, added memory management handling")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLama Kayal <lkayal@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250825143435.598584-2-mbloch@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent aa125f08

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/pool.c

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@@ -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;

	}