From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@nvidia.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Muhammad Sammar <muhammads@nvidia.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 net] net/mlx5: DR, prevent potential error pointer dereference
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 12:45:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z07TKoNepxLApF49@stanley.mountain> (raw)
The dr_domain_add_vport_cap() function generally returns NULL on error
but sometimes we want it to return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY) so the caller can
retry. The problem here is that "ret" can be either -EBUSY or -ENOMEM
and if it's and -ENOMEM then the error pointer is propogated back and
eventually dereferenced in dr_ste_v0_build_src_gvmi_qpn_tag().
Fixes: 11a45def2e19 ("net/mlx5: DR, Add support for SF vports")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@nvidia.com>
---
v2: Fix a typo in the commit message. "generally".
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c
index 3d74109f8230..a379e8358f82 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c
@@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ dr_domain_add_vport_cap(struct mlx5dr_domain *dmn, u16 vport)
if (ret) {
mlx5dr_dbg(dmn, "Couldn't insert new vport into xarray (%d)\n", ret);
kvfree(vport_caps);
+ if (ret != -EBUSY)
+ return NULL;
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
--
2.45.2
next reply other threads:[~2024-12-03 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-03 9:45 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2024-12-04 11:42 ` [PATCH v2 net] net/mlx5: DR, prevent potential error pointer dereference Tariq Toukan
2024-12-04 12:04 ` Dan Carpenter
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