From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Maor Gottlieb <maorg@nvidia.com>,
Mark Bloch <markb@nvidia.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: Don't use already freed action pointer
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 15:59:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fe70bbb120422cc71e6b018531954d58ea2e61e.1653397057.git.leonro@nvidia.com> (raw)
From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
The call to mlx5dr_action_destroy() releases "action" memory. That
pointer is set to miss_action later and generates the following smatch
error:
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c:53 set_miss_action()
warn: 'action' was already freed.
Make sure that the pointer is always valid by setting NULL after destroy.
Fixes: 6a48faeeca10 ("net/mlx5: Add direct rule fs_cmd implementation")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c
index 728f81882589..6a9abba92df6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c
@@ -44,11 +44,10 @@ static int set_miss_action(struct mlx5_flow_root_namespace *ns,
err = mlx5dr_table_set_miss_action(ft->fs_dr_table.dr_table, action);
if (err && action) {
err = mlx5dr_action_destroy(action);
- if (err) {
- action = NULL;
- mlx5_core_err(ns->dev, "Failed to destroy action (%d)\n",
- err);
- }
+ if (err)
+ mlx5_core_err(ns->dev,
+ "Failed to destroy action (%d)\n", err);
+ action = NULL;
}
ft->fs_dr_table.miss_action = action;
if (old_miss_action) {
--
2.36.1
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