This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipvs: properly dereference pe in ip_vs_add_service
to the 6.6-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:
ipvs-properly-dereference-pe-in-ip_vs_add_service.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b7ad9df288a596c4661e2cb679e5f27f23bdb528
Author: Chen Hanxiao <chenhx.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 27 14:15:15 2024 +0800
ipvs: properly dereference pe in ip_vs_add_service
[ Upstream commit cbd070a4ae62f119058973f6d2c984e325bce6e7 ]
Use pe directly to resolve sparse warning:
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:1471:27: warning: dereference of noderef expression
Fixes: 39b972231536 ("ipvs: handle connections started by real-servers")
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhx.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
index 143a341bbc0a4..dec5309d9f1f5 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
@@ -1459,18 +1459,18 @@ ip_vs_add_service(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs, struct ip_vs_service_user_kern *u,
if (ret < 0)
goto out_err;
- /* Bind the ct retriever */
- RCU_INIT_POINTER(svc->pe, pe);
- pe = NULL;
-
/* Update the virtual service counters */
if (svc->port == FTPPORT)
atomic_inc(&ipvs->ftpsvc_counter);
else if (svc->port == 0)
atomic_inc(&ipvs->nullsvc_counter);
- if (svc->pe && svc->pe->conn_out)
+ if (pe && pe->conn_out)
atomic_inc(&ipvs->conn_out_counter);
+ /* Bind the ct retriever */
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(svc->pe, pe);
+ pe = NULL;
+
/* Count only IPv4 services for old get/setsockopt interface */
if (svc->af == AF_INET)
ipvs->num_services++;
