ixgbe: Fix possible memory leak in ixgbe_set_ringparam
We were not correctly freeing the temporary rings on error in ixgbe_set_ring_param. In order to correct this I am unwinding a number of changes that were made in order to get things back to the original working form with modification for the current ring layouts. This approach has multiple advantages including a smaller memory footprint, and the fact that the interface is stopped while we are allocating the rings meaning that there is less potential for some sort of memory corruption on the ring. The only disadvantage I see with this approach is that on a Rx allocation failure we will report an error and only update the Tx rings. However the adapter should be fully functional in this state and the likelihood of such an error is very low. In addition it is not unreasonable to expect the user to need to recheck the ring configuration should they experience an error setting the ring sizes. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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