Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2019-05-07
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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 29/99] vxge: fix return of a free'd memblock on a failed dma mapping

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-05-07 06:07:26
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 0a2c34f18c94b596562bf3d019fceab998b8b584 ]

Currently if a pci dma mapping failure is detected a free'd
memblock address is returned rather than a NULL (that indicates
an error). Fix this by ensuring NULL is returned on this error case.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Use after free")
Fixes: 528f727279ae ("vxge: code cleanup and reorganization")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.c
index 7cde387e5ec6..51cd57ab3d95 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.c
@@ -2366,6 +2366,7 @@ static void *__vxge_hw_blockpool_malloc(struct __vxge_hw_device *devh, u32 size,
 				dma_object->addr))) {
 			vxge_os_dma_free(devh->pdev, memblock,
 				&dma_object->acc_handle);
+			memblock = NULL;
 			goto exit;
 		}
 
-- 
2.20.1
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