Memory leak was found in 2.6.18-rc4 and e1000 7.2.7 from sourceforge: We
should free resources allocated for previous rings if following allocation
fails.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |   14 ++++++--------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index c273b45..426811a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1395,10 +1395,6 @@ setup_tx_desc_die:
  *                               (Descriptors) for all queues
  * @adapter: board private structure
  *
- * If this function returns with an error, then it's possible one or
- * more of the rings is populated (while the rest are not).  It is the
- * callers duty to clean those orphaned rings.
- *
  * Return 0 on success, negative on failure
  **/
 
@@ -1412,6 +1408,9 @@ e1000_setup_all_tx_resources(struct e100
                if (err) {
                        DPRINTK(PROBE, ERR,
                                "Allocation for Tx Queue %u failed\n", i);
+                       for (i-- ; i >= 0; i--)
+                               e1000_free_tx_resources(adapter,
+                                                       &adapter->tx_ring[i]);
                        break;
                }
        }
@@ -1651,10 +1650,6 @@ setup_rx_desc_die:
  *                               (Descriptors) for all queues
  * @adapter: board private structure
  *
- * If this function returns with an error, then it's possible one or
- * more of the rings is populated (while the rest are not).  It is the
- * callers duty to clean those orphaned rings.
- *
  * Return 0 on success, negative on failure
  **/
 
@@ -1668,6 +1663,9 @@ e1000_setup_all_rx_resources(struct e100
                if (err) {
                        DPRINTK(PROBE, ERR,
                                "Allocation for Rx Queue %u failed\n", i);
+                       for (i-- ; i >= 0; i--)
+                               e1000_free_rx_resources(adapter,
+                                                       &adapter->rx_ring[i]);
                        break;
                }
        }



---
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