As siw_free_qp() is the last routine to access 'siw_base_qp' structure, freeing this structure early in siw_destroy_qp() could cause touch-after-free issue. Hence, moved kfree(siw_base_qp) from siw_destroy_qp() to siw_free_qp(). Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Krishnamraju Eraparaju <krishna2@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp.c | 2 ++ drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_verbs.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp.c index 430314c8abd9..c317f6e18ea8 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp.c @@ -1305,6 +1305,7 @@ int siw_qp_add(struct siw_device *sdev, struct siw_qp *qp) void siw_free_qp(struct kref *ref) { struct siw_qp *found, *qp = container_of(ref, struct siw_qp, ref); + struct siw_base_qp *siw_base_qp = to_siw_base_qp(qp->ib_qp); struct siw_device *sdev = qp->sdev; unsigned long flags; @@ -1327,4 +1328,5 @@ void siw_free_qp(struct kref *ref) atomic_dec(&sdev->num_qp); siw_dbg_qp(qp, "free QP\n"); kfree_rcu(qp, rcu); + kfree(siw_base_qp); } diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_verbs.c index 869e02b69a01..b18a677832e1 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_verbs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_verbs.c @@ -604,7 +604,6 @@ int siw_verbs_modify_qp(struct ib_qp *base_qp, struct ib_qp_attr *attr, int siw_destroy_qp(struct ib_qp *base_qp, struct ib_udata *udata) { struct siw_qp *qp = to_siw_qp(base_qp); - struct siw_base_qp *siw_base_qp = to_siw_base_qp(base_qp); struct siw_ucontext *uctx = rdma_udata_to_drv_context(udata, struct siw_ucontext, base_ucontext); @@ -641,7 +640,6 @@ int siw_destroy_qp(struct ib_qp *base_qp, struct ib_udata *udata) qp->scq = qp->rcq = NULL; siw_qp_put(qp); - kfree(siw_base_qp); return 0; } -- 2.23.0.rc0