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 <redacted>
---
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