This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
RDMA/iw_cxgb4: Avoid touch after free error in ARP failure handlers
to the 4.9-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:
rdma-iw_cxgb4-avoid-touch-after-free-error-in-arp-failure-handlers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Raju Rangoju <rajur@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 06:40:39 +0000
Subject: RDMA/iw_cxgb4: Avoid touch after free error in ARP failure handlers
From: Raju Rangoju <rajur@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1dad0ebeea1cd890b8892523f736916e245b0aef ]
The patch 761e19a504af (RDMA/iw_cxgb4: Handle return value of
c4iw_ofld_send() in abort_arp_failure()) from May 6, 2016
leads to the following static checker warning:
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c:575 abort_arp_failure()
warn: passing freed memory 'skb'
Also fixes skb leak when l2t resolution fails
Fixes: 761e19a504afa55 (RDMA/iw_cxgb4: Handle return value of
c4iw_ofld_send() in abort_arp_failure())
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Raju Rangoju <rajur@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wise <swise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ static int _put_ep_safe(struct c4iw_dev
ep = *((struct c4iw_ep **)(skb->cb + 2 * sizeof(void *)));
release_ep_resources(ep);
+ kfree_skb(skb);
return 0;
}
@@ -498,6 +499,7 @@ static int _put_pass_ep_safe(struct c4iw
ep = *((struct c4iw_ep **)(skb->cb + 2 * sizeof(void *)));
c4iw_put_ep(&ep->parent_ep->com);
release_ep_resources(ep);
+ kfree_skb(skb);
return 0;
}
@@ -569,11 +571,13 @@ static void abort_arp_failure(void *hand
PDBG("%s rdev %p\n", __func__, rdev);
req->cmd = CPL_ABORT_NO_RST;
+ skb_get(skb);
ret = c4iw_ofld_send(rdev, skb);
if (ret) {
__state_set(&ep->com, DEAD);
queue_arp_failure_cpl(ep, skb, FAKE_CPL_PUT_EP_SAFE);
- }
+ } else
+ kfree_skb(skb);
}
static int send_flowc(struct c4iw_ep *ep)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rajur@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/rdma-iw_cxgb4-avoid-touch-after-free-error-in-arp-failure-handlers.patch