From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Falcon Subject: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Ensure that buffers are NULL after free Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:25:23 -0600 Message-ID: <1517959523-25166-1-git-send-email-tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jallen@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Thomas Falcon To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:33454 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753768AbeBFXZ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2018 18:25:29 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098404.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w16NNvVv025820 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 18:25:29 -0500 Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com (e38.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.159]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2fyjqj0192-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:25:28 -0500 Received: from localhost by e38.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 16:25:27 -0700 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This change will guard against a double free in the case that the buffers were previously freed at some other time, such as during a device reset. It resolves a kernel oops that occurred when changing the VNIC device's MTU. Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c index 8c3058d..e3e56a8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -354,6 +354,8 @@ static void release_stats_buffers(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter) { kfree(adapter->tx_stats_buffers); kfree(adapter->rx_stats_buffers); + adapter->tx_stats_buffers = NULL; + adapter->rx_stats_buffers = NULL; } static int init_stats_buffers(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter) @@ -599,6 +601,8 @@ static void release_vpd_data(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter) kfree(adapter->vpd->buff); kfree(adapter->vpd); + + adapter->vpd = NULL; } static void release_tx_pools(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter) @@ -909,6 +913,7 @@ static int ibmvnic_get_vpd(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter) if (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->vpd->dma_addr)) { dev_err(dev, "Could not map VPD buffer\n"); kfree(adapter->vpd->buff); + adapter->vpd->buff = NULL; return -ENOMEM; } -- 1.8.3.1