Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2024-08-30

Re: [PATCH] ice: Fix possible double free in error handling path

From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Date: 2024-08-30 13:50:12
Also in: intel-wired-lan, lkml, stable

From: Ma Ke <redacted>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 21:33:24 +0800
When auxiliary_device_add() returns error and then calls
auxiliary_device_uninit(), callback function adev_release
calls kfree(iadev). We shouldn't call kfree(iadev) again
in the error handling path. Set 'iadev' to NULL.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
You need to add a comment with the first kernel version which has this
bug. E.g.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 9.9+

(replace 9.9 with the actual version)

BTW usually Cc: stable goes *after* "Fixes:".
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Fixes: f9f5301e7e2d ("ice: Register auxiliary device to provide RDMA")
Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_idc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_idc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_idc.c
index 145b27f2a4ce..5db05f54a80c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_idc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_idc.c
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ int ice_plug_aux_dev(struct ice_pf *pf)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
+	iadev = NULL;
 	ret = auxiliary_device_add(adev);
 	if (ret) {
 		auxiliary_device_uninit(adev);
I don't understand this patch.
I checked net-next, tnguy/net-queue, tnguy/next-queue and not in a
single branch @iadev is used after auxiliary_device_add().
IOW you just introduce a dead store which will be removed by the
compiler. The kfree() above that you mentioned is called only once and
never after auxiliary_device_uninit().
Can you draw a call ladder with the related code pieces how I can
reproduce the issue?

Thanks,
Olek
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