From 53020092bd89b0d4ccc5368a3956f43cb43e5665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yevgeny Petrilin Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:28:52 +0000 Subject: mlx4: Fixing use after free In case of allocation failure, tried to use the promiscuous QP entry that was previously freed. Now freeing this entry only in case we will not put it back to the list of promiscuous entries. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/mlx4/mcg.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/mcg.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/mcg.c index e71372a..37150b2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mlx4/mcg.c +++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/mcg.c @@ -469,7 +469,6 @@ static int remove_promisc_qp(struct mlx4_dev *dev, u8 vep_num, u8 port, /*remove from list of promisc qps */ list_del(&pqp->list); - kfree(pqp); /* set the default entry not to include the removed one */ mailbox = mlx4_alloc_cmd_mailbox(dev); @@ -528,6 +527,8 @@ out_mailbox: out_list: if (back_to_list) list_add_tail(&pqp->list, &s_steer->promisc_qps[steer]); + else + kfree(pqp); out_mutex: mutex_unlock(&priv->mcg_table.mutex); return err; -- cgit v1.1