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Message-ID: <15e70d8.29a3c.18c4e985043.Coremail.dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn>
Date:   Sat, 9 Dec 2023 20:40:54 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
From:   dinghao.liu@....edu.cn
To:     "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Ariel Elior" <aelior@...vell.com>,
        "Manish Chopra" <manishc@...vell.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "Yuval Mintz" <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] qed: Fix a potential use-after-free in
 qed_cxt_tables_alloc

> On Thu,  7 Dec 2023 17:36:06 +0800 Dinghao Liu wrote:
> > v2: -Change the bug type from double-free to use-after-free.
> >     -Move the null check against p_mngr->ilt_shadow to the beginning
> >      of the function qed_ilt_shadow_free().
> >     -When kcalloc() fails in qed_ilt_shadow_alloc(), just return
> >      because there is nothing to free.
> 
> This refactoring is not acceptable as part of a fix, sorry.
> 
> > @@ -933,6 +936,7 @@ static void qed_ilt_shadow_free(struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn)
> >  		p_dma->virt_addr = NULL;
> >  	}
> >  	kfree(p_mngr->ilt_shadow);
> > +	p_hwfn->p_cxt_mngr->ilt_shadow = NULL;
> 
> Why do you dereference p_hwfn here?
> Seems more natural to use:
> 
> 	p_mngr->ilt_shadow = NULL;
> 
> since that's the exact pointer that was passed to free.
> -- 
> pw-bot: cr

I will resend a new patch to fix this, thanks!

Regards,
Dinghao

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