netdev - [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Ensure that buffers are NULL after free

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Date:   Tue,  6 Feb 2018 17:25:23 -0600
From:   Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Ensure that buffers are NULL after free

This change will guard against a double free in the case that the
buffers were previously freed at some other time, such as during
a device reset. It resolves a kernel oops that occurred when changing
the VNIC device's MTU.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 8c3058d..e3e56a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -354,6 +354,8 @@ static void release_stats_buffers(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter)
 {
 	kfree(adapter->tx_stats_buffers);
 	kfree(adapter->rx_stats_buffers);
+	adapter->tx_stats_buffers = NULL;
+	adapter->rx_stats_buffers = NULL;
 }
 
 static int init_stats_buffers(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter)
@@ -599,6 +601,8 @@ static void release_vpd_data(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter)
 
 	kfree(adapter->vpd->buff);
 	kfree(adapter->vpd);
+
+	adapter->vpd = NULL;
 }
 
 static void release_tx_pools(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter)
@@ -909,6 +913,7 @@ static int ibmvnic_get_vpd(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter)
 	if (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->vpd->dma_addr)) {
 		dev_err(dev, "Could not map VPD buffer\n");
 		kfree(adapter->vpd->buff);
+		adapter->vpd->buff = NULL;
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
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1.8.3.1