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[PATCH net 5/8] ice: dpll: set pointers to NULL after kfree in ice_dpll_deinit_info

From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Date: 2026-06-22 22:01:10
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: ZhaoJinming <redacted>

ice_dpll_deinit_info() calls kfree() on several pf->dplls fields
(inputs, outputs, eec.input_prio, pps.input_prio) but does not set
the pointers to NULL afterward. This leaves dangling pointers in the
pf->dplls structure.

While not currently exploitable through existing code paths, this is
unsafe because:

1. If ice_dpll_init_info() is called again after a deinit (e.g. during
   driver recovery), and a subsequent allocation within init fails, the
   error path will jump to deinit_info and call ice_dpll_deinit_info()
   again. Since some pointers still hold the old freed addresses, this
   would result in a double-free.

2. Any future code that checks these pointers before use or after free
   would be unprotected against use-after-free.

Follow the common kernel convention of setting pointers to NULL after
kfree() so that:
- kfree(NULL) is a safe no-op, preventing double-free
- NULL checks on these pointers become meaningful

This is a preparatory fix for a subsequent patch that routes additional
error paths in ice_dpll_init_info() to the deinit_info label.

Fixes: d7999f5ea64b ("ice: implement dpll interface to control cgu")
Signed-off-by: ZhaoJinming <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted>
Tested-by: Rinitha S <redacted> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c
index 462c69cc11e1..3876ee7255ac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c
@@ -4645,9 +4645,13 @@ ice_dpll_init_pins_info(struct ice_pf *pf, enum ice_dpll_pin_type pin_type)
 static void ice_dpll_deinit_info(struct ice_pf *pf)
 {
 	kfree(pf->dplls.inputs);
+	pf->dplls.inputs = NULL;
 	kfree(pf->dplls.outputs);
+	pf->dplls.outputs = NULL;
 	kfree(pf->dplls.eec.input_prio);
+	pf->dplls.eec.input_prio = NULL;
 	kfree(pf->dplls.pps.input_prio);
+	pf->dplls.pps.input_prio = NULL;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
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