From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>,
Oz Shlomo <ozsh@mellanox.com>, Paul Blakey <paulb@mellanox.com>,
Eli Britstein <elibr@mellanox.com>,
Ariel Levkovich <lariel@nvidia.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/mlx5e: Fix use of freed pointer
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:37:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200929123713.GG3094@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200929101554.8963-1-alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:15:49AM +0100, Alex Dewar wrote:
> If the call to mlx5_fc_create() fails, then shared_counter will be freed
> before its member, shared_counter->counter, is accessed to retrieve the
> error code. Fix by using an intermediate variable.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: CID 1497153: Memory - illegal accesses (USE_AFTER_FREE)
> Fixes: 1edae2335adf ("net/mlx5e: CT: Use the same counter for both directions")
> Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Add Fixes tag (Leon)
> - Use ERR_CAST (Leon)
>
> Hi Leon,
>
> I've made the suggested changes. Let me know if there's anything else
> you need :)
Hi Alex,
Saeed already picked Dan's patch.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/1017ab3724b83818c03dfa7661b3f31827a7f62f.camel@kernel.org/T/#t
>
> There is also this patch in the series which doesn't seem to have been
> reviewed yet: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200927113254.362480-4-alex.dewar90@gmail.com/
Ariel is handling this internally.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/64f6a3eaaac505c341f996df0b0877ee9af56c00.camel@kernel.org/T/#t
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-29 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-27 11:32 [PATCH 0/3] net/mlx5e: Fix some static analysis warnings Alex Dewar
2020-09-27 11:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] net/mlx5e: Clean up error handling in mlx5e_alloc_flow() Alex Dewar
2020-09-28 7:39 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-27 11:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] net/mlx5e: Fix use of freed pointer Alex Dewar
2020-09-28 7:43 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-29 10:15 ` [PATCH v2] " Alex Dewar
2020-09-29 12:37 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2020-09-27 11:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] net/mlx5e: Fix possible null pointer dereference Alex Dewar
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