linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] idpf: nullify pointers after they are freed

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Message-ID: <20260123065806.3858623-1-boolli@google.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:58:06 +0000
From: Li Li <boolli@...gle.com>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, 
	Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	David Decotigny <decot@...gle.com>, Anjali Singhai <anjali.singhai@...el.com>, 
	Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>, Brian Vazquez <brianvv@...gle.com>, 
	Li Li <boolli@...gle.com>, emil.s.tantilov@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] idpf: nullify pointers after they are freed

rss_data->rss_key needs to be nullified after it is freed.
Checks like "if (!rss_data->rss_key)" in the code could fail
if it is not nullified.

Tested: built and booted the kernel.

Fixes: 83f38f210b85 ("idpf: Fix RSS LUT NULL pointer crash on early ethtool operations")
Signed-off-by: Li Li <boolli@...gle.com>
---
Changes in v2:
 - Remove the line to nullify vport->q_vector_idxs as it is not
   necessary.

 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c
index 131a8121839bd..f63ab58428d2e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c
@@ -1308,6 +1308,7 @@ static struct idpf_vport *idpf_vport_alloc(struct idpf_adapter *adapter,
 
 free_rss_key:
 	kfree(rss_data->rss_key);
+	rss_data->rss_key = NULL;
 free_vector_idxs:
 	kfree(vport->q_vector_idxs);
 free_vport:
-- 
2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog