linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 net] net/mlx5: DR, prevent potential error pointer dereference

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Message-ID: <07477254-e179-43e2-b1b3-3b9db4674195@stanley.mountain>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 15:06:41 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@...dia.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
	Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Muhammad Sammar <muhammads@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 net] net/mlx5: DR, prevent potential error pointer
 dereference

The dr_domain_add_vport_cap() function generally returns NULL on error
but sometimes we want it to return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY) so the caller can
retry.  The problem here is that "ret" can be either -EBUSY or -ENOMEM
and if it's and -ENOMEM then the error pointer is propogated back and
eventually dereferenced in dr_ste_v0_build_src_gvmi_qpn_tag().

Fixes: 11a45def2e19 ("net/mlx5: DR, Add support for SF vports")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
---
v2: fix typo in commit message
v3: better style

 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c  | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c
index 3d74109f8230..49f22cad92bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_domain.c
@@ -297,7 +297,9 @@ dr_domain_add_vport_cap(struct mlx5dr_domain *dmn, u16 vport)
 	if (ret) {
 		mlx5dr_dbg(dmn, "Couldn't insert new vport into xarray (%d)\n", ret);
 		kvfree(vport_caps);
-		return ERR_PTR(ret);
+		if (ret == -EBUSY)
+			return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
+		return NULL;
 	}
 
 	return vport_caps;
-- 
2.45.2