Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-12-02

[PATCH] net/mlx5: Fix dangling pointer access

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From: Ameer Hamza <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-02 22:15:51
Also in: linux-rdma, lkml
Subsystem: mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Saeed Mahameed, Leon Romanovsky, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Fix for dangling pointer access reported by Coverity.

Addresses-Coverity: 1494138 ("Use after free")

Signed-off-by: Ameer Hamza <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c
index 3ca998874c50..856023321972 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static int mlx5_health_try_recover(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
 {
 	mlx5_core_warn(dev, "handling bad device here\n");
 	mlx5_handle_bad_state(dev);
-	if (mlx5_health_wait_pci_up(dev)) {
+	if (dev->timeouts && mlx5_health_wait_pci_up(dev)) {
 		mlx5_core_err(dev, "health recovery flow aborted, PCI reads still not working\n");
 		return -EIO;
 	}
-- 
2.25.1
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