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Re: cxgb: several issues



In article <86942d41-b91b-5ad5-4edf-fa02c5c1e6a8%m00nbsd.net@localhost>,
Maxime Villard  <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote:
>Mootja tells me that there is a memory leak here [1]. 'm' is allocated and
>overwritten at l.130. The problem is, it seems to me 'm' is actually useless,
>but I'm not sure if it somehow gets referenced earlier. Note, by the way, that
>there is a similar bug later: at l.162 'm0' is allocated, and then overwritten
>at l.185. And again, I'm not sure whether the leak can be triggered or not.
>
>Does someone have an idea? If not, I guess I'll just add some XXXs and file a
>PR.
>
>[1] https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/dev/pci/cxgb/cxgb_l2t.c#106

m is actually useless. the newer code in FreeBSD does not pass m in.
m is placed in the arp queue earlier. I would put a comment that this
is useless, remove the allocation and put a KASSERT there to make sure
that m is not NULL.

christos



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