The patch below does not apply to the 5.7-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 47a357de2b6b706af3c9471d5042f9ba8907031e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 19:45:26 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: DR, Fix freeing in dr_create_rc_qp()
Variable "in" in dr_create_rc_qp() is allocated with kvzalloc() and
should be freed with kvfree().
Fixes: 297cccebdc5a ("net/mlx5: DR, Expose an internal API to issue RDMA operations")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_send.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_send.c
index f421013b0b54..2ca79b9bde1f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_send.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_send.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static struct mlx5dr_qp *dr_create_rc_qp(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev,
MLX5_SET(create_qp_in, in, opcode, MLX5_CMD_OP_CREATE_QP);
err = mlx5_cmd_exec(mdev, in, inlen, out, sizeof(out));
dr_qp->qpn = MLX5_GET(create_qp_out, out, qpn);
- kfree(in);
+ kvfree(in);
if (err)
goto err_in;
dr_qp->uar = attr->uar;
