ixgbevf: Fix multiple issues in ixgbevf_get/set_ringparam
In ixgbevf_get_ringparam we could run into a NULL pointer dereference if the rings were not allocated when we attempted the call. To prevent that we can just access the tx/rx_ring_count values instead of attempting to access the rings to get the count. This change corrects a memory leak and memory corruption in ixgbevf_set_ringparam. The memory leak was due to us not freeing the resources from the ring before overwriting them. This change corrects the memory leak by making certain to call ixgbe_free_tx/rx_resources on the rings prior to freeing them. The memory corruption was because we were replacing the rings but not updating the q_vectors. It addresses the memory corruption by leaving the rings in place and instead just copying the contents of the new rings into the existing rings. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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