From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: dan.carpenter@oracle.com, davem@davemloft.net,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "rocker: move dereference before free" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:34:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <150036684160138@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rocker: move dereference before free
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rocker-move-dereference-before-free.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From acb4b7df48b539cb391287921de57e4e5fae3460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:44:21 +0300
Subject: rocker: move dereference before free
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
commit acb4b7df48b539cb391287921de57e4e5fae3460 upstream.
My static checker complains that ofdpa_neigh_del() can sometimes free
"found". It just makes sense to use it first before deleting it.
Fixes: ecf244f753e0 ("rocker: fix maybe-uninitialized warning")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c
@@ -1505,8 +1505,8 @@ static int ofdpa_port_ipv4_nh(struct ofd
*index = entry->index;
resolved = false;
} else if (removing) {
- ofdpa_neigh_del(trans, found);
*index = found->index;
+ ofdpa_neigh_del(trans, found);
} else if (updating) {
ofdpa_neigh_update(found, trans, NULL, false);
resolved = !is_zero_ether_addr(found->eth_dst);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are
queue-4.9/rocker-move-dereference-before-free.patch
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