On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 16:11 +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> I have actually tested igb driver on the real hardware(Intel 82575EB
> PCI-E
> Gigabit Ethernet Controller), and find some potential bugs:
> The target file is drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
> 
> (1) In the normal process of igb, pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting and
> pci_disable_pcie_error_reporting is called in pairs in igb_probe and
> igb_remove. However, when pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting has been
> called
> and alloc_etherdev_mqs in igb_probe is failed, "err_alloc_etherdev"
> segment
> in igb_probe is executed immediately to exit, but
> pci_disable_pcie_error_reporting is not called.
> (2) The same situation happens when pci_iomap in igb_probe is failed.
> (3) The same situation happens when igb_sw_init in igb_probe is
> failed.
> (4) The same situation happens when register_netdev in igb_probe is
> failed.
> (5) The same situation happens when igb_init_i2c in igb_probe is
> failed.
> 
> (6) The function kcalloc is called by igb_sw_init when initializing
> the
> ethernet card driver, but kfree is not called when register_netdev in
> igb_probe is failed, which may cause memory leak.
> (7) The same situation happens when igb_init_i2c in igb_probe is
> failed.
> (8) The same situation happens when kzalloc in igb_alloc_q_vector is
> failed.
> (9) The same situation happens when igb_alloc_q_vector in
> igb_alloc_q_vectors is failed.
> 
> (10) When igb_init_i2c in igb_probe is failed, igb_enable_sriov is
> called in
> igb_probe_vfs, but igb_disable_sriov is not called.
> (11) The same situation with [10] happens when register_netdev in
> igb_probe
> is failed.
> 
> Meanwhile, I also write the patch to fix the bugs. I have run the
> patch on
> the hardware, it can work normally and fix the above bugs.

Was this a bug you actually saw?  Or a theoretical bug based on code
review?

I do not mind adding this to my queue so that we can review and test the
patch, although this will cause a fair amount of regression testing.

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