netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: cls_flower: Remove filter from mask before freeing it

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Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2019 11:18:30 +0000
From:   Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "jhs@...atatu.com" <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        "xiyou.wangcong@...il.com" <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        "jiri@...nulli.us" <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>,
        Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: cls_flower: Remove filter from mask before
 freeing it

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> From: Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 14:50:38 +0000
>
>> In fl_change(), when adding a new rule (i.e. fold == NULL), a driver may
>> reject the new rule, for example due to resource exhaustion. By that
>> point, the new rule was already assigned a mask, and it was added to
>> that mask's hash table. The clean-up path that's invoked as a result of
>> the rejection however neglects to undo the hash table addition, and
>> proceeds to free the new rule, thus leaving a dangling pointer in the
>> hash table.
>> 
>> Fix by removing fnew from the mask's hash table before it is freed.
>> 
>> Fixes: 35cc3cefc4de ("net/sched: cls_flower: Reject duplicated rules
>> also under skip_sw")
>
> Please do not break up lone Fixes: tag lines in the future, I fixed it
> up for you this time.

Sorry about that and thanks.