[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net] ice: Fix freeing uninitialized pointers

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at linaro.org
Sat Mar 16 09:44:40 UTC 2024


Automatically cleaned up pointers need to be initialized before exiting
their scope.  In this case, they need to be initialized to NULL before
any return statement.

Fixes: 90f821d72e11 ("ice: avoid unnecessary devm_ usage")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c  | 4 ++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
index 4d8111aeb0ff..4b27d2bc2912 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
@@ -1002,8 +1002,8 @@ static void ice_get_itr_intrl_gran(struct ice_hw *hw)
  */
 int ice_init_hw(struct ice_hw *hw)
 {
-	struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree);
-	void *mac_buf __free(kfree);
+	struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree) = NULL;
+	void *mac_buf __free(kfree) = NULL;
 	u16 mac_buf_len;
 	int status;
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
index 255a9c8151b4..78b833b3e1d7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
@@ -941,11 +941,11 @@ static u64 ice_loopback_test(struct net_device *netdev)
 	struct ice_netdev_priv *np = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	struct ice_vsi *orig_vsi = np->vsi, *test_vsi;
 	struct ice_pf *pf = orig_vsi->back;
+	u8 *tx_frame __free(kfree) = NULL;
 	u8 broadcast[ETH_ALEN], ret = 0;
 	int num_frames, valid_frames;
 	struct ice_tx_ring *tx_ring;
 	struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring;
-	u8 *tx_frame __free(kfree);
 	int i;
 
 	netdev_info(netdev, "loopback test\n");
-- 
2.43.0



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