netdev - [PATCH net 3/3] mlxsw: spectrum_nve: Fix memory leak upon driver reload

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Message-ID: <20181218155833.19424-4-idosch@mellanox.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:59:23 +0000
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
To:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>,
        Shalom Toledo <shalomt@...lanox.com>,
        Alexander Petrovskiy <alexpe@...lanox.com>,
        mlxsw <mlxsw@...lanox.com>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 3/3] mlxsw: spectrum_nve: Fix memory leak upon driver
 reload

The pointer was NULLed before freeing the memory, resulting in a memory
leak. Trace from kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff88820ae36528 (size 512):
  comm "devlink", pid 5374, jiffies 4295354033 (age 10829.296s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000a43f5195>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1be/0x330
    [<00000000312f8140>] mlxsw_sp_nve_init+0xcb/0x1ae0
    [<0000000009201d22>] mlxsw_sp_init+0x1382/0x2690
    [<000000007227d877>] mlxsw_sp1_init+0x1b5/0x260
    [<000000004a16feec>] __mlxsw_core_bus_device_register+0x776/0x1360
    [<0000000070ab954c>] mlxsw_devlink_core_bus_device_reload+0x129/0x220
    [<00000000432313d5>] devlink_nl_cmd_reload+0x119/0x1e0
    [<000000003821a06b>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x813/0x1150
    [<00000000d54d04c0>] genl_rcv_msg+0xd1/0x180
    [<0000000040543d12>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x152/0x3c0
    [<00000000efc4eae8>] genl_rcv+0x2d/0x40
    [<00000000ea645603>] netlink_unicast+0x52f/0x740
    [<00000000641fca1a>] netlink_sendmsg+0x9c7/0xf50
    [<00000000fed4a4b8>] sock_sendmsg+0xbe/0x120
    [<00000000d85795a9>] __sys_sendto+0x397/0x620
    [<00000000c5f84622>] __x64_sys_sendto+0xe6/0x1a0

Fixes: 6e6030bd5412 ("mlxsw: spectrum_nve: Implement common NVE core")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c
index 5c13674439f1..b5b54b41349a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c
@@ -977,6 +977,6 @@ void mlxsw_sp_nve_fini(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp)
 {
 	WARN_ON(mlxsw_sp->nve->num_nve_tunnels);
 	rhashtable_destroy(&mlxsw_sp->nve->mc_list_ht);
-	mlxsw_sp->nve = NULL;
 	kfree(mlxsw_sp->nve);
+	mlxsw_sp->nve = NULL;
 }
-- 
2.20.0