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authorJack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>2016-12-29 18:37:09 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-08-06 18:59:44 -0700
commita8820678afe1289cd35431ff847d817cdeffcadf (patch)
treea974e35b9f83c72428195dd634eb6224164bbcd6 /drivers
parentaeb230318ddbfc4b06f0d4befd755090ec0c4d6f (diff)
net/mlx4_core: Use-after-free causes a resource leak in flow-steering detach
[ Upstream commit 3b01fe7f91c8e4f9afc4fae3c5af72c14958d2d8 ] mlx4_QP_FLOW_STEERING_DETACH_wrapper first removes the steering rule (which results in freeing the rule structure), and then references a field in this struct (the qp number) when releasing the busy-status on the rule's qp. Since this memory was freed, it could reallocated and changed. Therefore, the qp number in the struct may be incorrect, so that we are releasing the incorrect qp. This leaves the rule's qp in the busy state (and could possibly release an incorrect qp as well). Fix this by saving the qp number in a local variable, for use after removing the steering rule. Fixes: 2c473ae7e582 ("net/mlx4_core: Disallow releasing VF QPs which have steering rules") Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c
index 32f76bf018c3..f1eb74a61bce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c
@@ -4474,6 +4474,7 @@ int mlx4_QP_FLOW_STEERING_DETACH_wrapper(struct mlx4_dev *dev, int slave,
struct res_qp *rqp;
struct res_fs_rule *rrule;
u64 mirr_reg_id;
+ int qpn;
if (dev->caps.steering_mode !=
MLX4_STEERING_MODE_DEVICE_MANAGED)
@@ -4490,10 +4491,11 @@ int mlx4_QP_FLOW_STEERING_DETACH_wrapper(struct mlx4_dev *dev, int slave,
}
mirr_reg_id = rrule->mirr_rule_id;
kfree(rrule->mirr_mbox);
+ qpn = rrule->qpn;
/* Release the rule form busy state before removal */
put_res(dev, slave, vhcr->in_param, RES_FS_RULE);
- err = get_res(dev, slave, rrule->qpn, RES_QP, &rqp);
+ err = get_res(dev, slave, qpn, RES_QP, &rqp);
if (err)
return err;
@@ -4518,7 +4520,7 @@ int mlx4_QP_FLOW_STEERING_DETACH_wrapper(struct mlx4_dev *dev, int slave,
if (!err)
atomic_dec(&rqp->ref_count);
out:
- put_res(dev, slave, rrule->qpn, RES_QP);
+ put_res(dev, slave, qpn, RES_QP);
return err;
}