net: thunderx: Fix the ACPI memory leak
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 <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123082237.1220521-1-liaoyu15@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c
index 2f6484d..7eb2ddb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c
@@ -1436,8 +1436,10 @@
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);
