This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5: Use kfree(ft->g) in arfs_create_groups()
to the 4.19-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-use-kfree-ft-g-in-arfs_create_groups.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit db8abbe6cd7f81c3443dbd93153e9860e0b43659
Author: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 5 22:22:35 2020 +0300
net/mlx5: Use kfree(ft->g) in arfs_create_groups()
[ Upstream commit 360000b26e37a75b3000bf0585b263809d96ffd3 ]
Use kfree() instead of kvfree() on ft->g in arfs_create_groups() because
the memory is allocated with kcalloc().
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 3c6d5189246f ("net/mlx5e: fix a double-free in arfs_create_groups")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c
index a4be04debe67..13496d93e7bc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int arfs_create_groups(struct mlx5e_flow_table *ft,
sizeof(*ft->g), GFP_KERNEL);
in = kvzalloc(inlen, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!in || !ft->g) {
- kvfree(ft->g);
+ kfree(ft->g);
kvfree(in);
return -ENOMEM;
}
