This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of flow rules creation fail to the 6.9-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-fix-tainted-pointer-delete-is-case-of-flow-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3e7e69e895c5ce90f88011c9e2aef9d60f4f922d Author: Aleksandr Mishin <amishin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 4 13:05:52 2024 +0300 net/mlx5: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of flow rules creation fail [ Upstream commit 229bedbf62b13af5aba6525ad10b62ad38d9ccb5 ] In case of flow rule creation fail in mlx5_lag_create_port_sel_table(), instead of previously created rules, the tainted pointer is deleted deveral times. Fix this bug by using correct flow rules pointers. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Fixes: 352899f384d4 ("net/mlx5: Lag, use buckets in hash mode") Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Mishin <amishin@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240604100552.25201-1-amishin@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/port_sel.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/port_sel.c index 101b3bb908638..e12bc4cd80661 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/port_sel.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/port_sel.c @@ -88,9 +88,13 @@ static int mlx5_lag_create_port_sel_table(struct mlx5_lag *ldev, &dest, 1); if (IS_ERR(lag_definer->rules[idx])) { err = PTR_ERR(lag_definer->rules[idx]); - while (i--) - while (j--) + do { + while (j--) { + idx = i * ldev->buckets + j; mlx5_del_flow_rules(lag_definer->rules[idx]); + } + j = ldev->buckets; + } while (i--); goto destroy_fg; } }