Patch "rocker: move dereference before free" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rocker: move dereference before free

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rocker-move-dereference-before-free.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From acb4b7df48b539cb391287921de57e4e5fae3460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:44:21 +0300
Subject: rocker: move dereference before free

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

commit acb4b7df48b539cb391287921de57e4e5fae3460 upstream.

My static checker complains that ofdpa_neigh_del() can sometimes free
"found".   It just makes sense to use it first before deleting it.

Fixes: ecf244f753e0 ("rocker: fix maybe-uninitialized warning")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c
@@ -1505,8 +1505,8 @@ static int ofdpa_port_ipv4_nh(struct ofd
 		*index = entry->index;
 		resolved = false;
 	} else if (removing) {
-		ofdpa_neigh_del(trans, found);
 		*index = found->index;
+		ofdpa_neigh_del(trans, found);
 	} else if (updating) {
 		ofdpa_neigh_update(found, trans, NULL, false);
 		resolved = !is_zero_ether_addr(found->eth_dst);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/rocker-move-dereference-before-free.patch