On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:39:24PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We accidentally return ERR_PTR(0) if ib_alloc_mr() fails. The caller
> is expecting error pointers so it results in a NULL dereference.
>
> Fixes: 1659185fb4d0 ("RDS: IB: Support Fastreg MR (FRMR) memory registration mode")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/net/rds/ib_frmr.c b/net/rds/ib_frmr.c
> index 48332a6ed738..74a66cc162ed 100644
> --- a/net/rds/ib_frmr.c
> +++ b/net/rds/ib_frmr.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static struct rds_ib_mr *rds_ib_alloc_frmr(struct rds_ib_device *rds_ibdev,
> struct rds_ib_mr_pool *pool;
> struct rds_ib_mr *ibmr = NULL;
> struct rds_ib_frmr *frmr;
> - int err = 0;
> + int err;
Can we trust it'll be zero?
>
> if (npages <= RDS_MR_8K_MSG_SIZE)
> pool = rds_ibdev->mr_8k_pool;
> @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ static struct rds_ib_mr *rds_ib_alloc_frmr(struct rds_ib_device *rds_ibdev,
> pool->fmr_attr.max_pages);
> if (IS_ERR(frmr->mr)) {
> pr_warn("RDS/IB: %s failed to allocate MR", __func__);
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> goto out_no_cigar;
> }
>
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