This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: Don't use already freed action pointer to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5-don-t-use-already-freed-action-pointer.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c729d56117eddb8627d180c68102d4378760fa02 Author: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 24 15:59:27 2022 +0300 net/mlx5: Don't use already freed action pointer [ Upstream commit 80b2bd737d0e833e6a2b77e482e5a714a79c86a4 ] The call to mlx5dr_action_destroy() releases "action" memory. That pointer is set to miss_action later and generates the following smatch error: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c:53 set_miss_action() warn: 'action' was already freed. Make sure that the pointer is always valid by setting NULL after destroy. Fixes: 6a48faeeca10 ("net/mlx5: Add direct rule fs_cmd implementation") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c index ae4597118f8b..0553ee1fe80a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c @@ -43,11 +43,10 @@ static int set_miss_action(struct mlx5_flow_root_namespace *ns, err = mlx5dr_table_set_miss_action(ft->fs_dr_table.dr_table, action); if (err && action) { err = mlx5dr_action_destroy(action); - if (err) { - action = NULL; - mlx5_core_err(ns->dev, "Failed to destroy action (%d)\n", - err); - } + if (err) + mlx5_core_err(ns->dev, + "Failed to destroy action (%d)\n", err); + action = NULL; } ft->fs_dr_table.miss_action = action; if (old_miss_action) {