This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix an Oops in error handling code
to the 6.2-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-e-switch-fix-an-oops-in-error-handling-code.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ad31eea6f2517ab53231cbe7162f0f506f2309b1
Author: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Feb 27 14:16:10 2023 +0300
net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix an Oops in error handling code
[ Upstream commit 640fcdbcf27fc62de9223f958ceb4e897a00e791 ]
The error handling dereferences "vport". There is nothing we can do if
it is an error pointer except returning the error code.
Fixes: 133dcfc577ea ("net/mlx5: E-Switch, Alloc and free unique metadata for match")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c
index a994e71e05c11..db578a7e7008a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c
@@ -364,8 +364,7 @@ int mlx5_esw_acl_ingress_vport_bond_update(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, u16 vport_n
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(vport))) {
esw_warn(esw->dev, "vport(%d) invalid!\n", vport_num);
- err = PTR_ERR(vport);
- goto out;
+ return PTR_ERR(vport);
}
esw_acl_ingress_ofld_rules_destroy(esw, vport);
