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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

             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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