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[PATCH 5.15.y] ipvs: properly dereference pe in ip_vs_add_service

From: Cliff Liu <hidden>
Date: 2025-03-25 05:57:32
Also in: lkml, lvs-devel, netfilter-devel, stable
Subsystem: ipvs, netfilter, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Simon Horman, Julian Anastasov, Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Chen Hanxiao <redacted>

[ Upstream commit cbd070a4ae62f119058973f6d2c984e325bce6e7 ]

Use pe directly to resolve sparse warning:

  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:1471:27: warning: dereference of noderef expression

Fixes: 39b972231536 ("ipvs: handle connections started by real-servers")
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <redacted>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Cliff Liu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: He Zhe <redacted>
---
Verified the build test.
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
index d0b64c36471d..0f1531e0ce4e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
@@ -1384,20 +1384,20 @@ ip_vs_add_service(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_service_user_kern *u,
 		sched = NULL;
 	}
 
-	/* Bind the ct retriever */
-	RCU_INIT_POINTER(svc->pe, pe);
-	pe = NULL;
-
 	/* Update the virtual service counters */
 	if (svc->port == FTPPORT)
 		atomic_inc(&ipvs->ftpsvc_counter);
 	else if (svc->port == 0)
 		atomic_inc(&ipvs->nullsvc_counter);
-	if (svc->pe && svc->pe->conn_out)
+	if (pe && pe->conn_out)
 		atomic_inc(&ipvs->conn_out_counter);
 
 	ip_vs_start_estimator(ipvs, &svc->stats);
 
+	/* Bind the ct retriever */
+	RCU_INIT_POINTER(svc->pe, pe);
+	pe = NULL;
+
 	/* Count only IPv4 services for old get/setsockopt interface */
 	if (svc->af == AF_INET)
 		ipvs->num_services++;
-- 
2.43.0
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