netdev - Re: [PATCH net] chelsio/chtls: fix a double free in chtls

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Date:   Thu, 3 Dec 2020 10:55:47 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Ayush Sawal <ayush.sawal@...lsio.com>,
        Atul Gupta <atul.gupta@...lsio.com>,
        Vinay Kumar Yadav <vinay.yadav@...lsio.com>,
        Rohit Maheshwari <rohitm@...lsio.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] chelsio/chtls: fix a double free in chtls_setkey()

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 11:44:31 +0300 Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The "skb" is freed by the transmit code in cxgb4_ofld_send() and we
> shouldn't use it again.  But in the current code, if we hit an error
> later on in the function then the clean up code will call kfree_skb(skb)
> and so it causes a double free.
> 
> Set the "skb" to NULL and that makes the kfree_skb() a no-op.
> 
> Fixes: d25f2f71f653 ("crypto: chtls - Program the TLS session Key")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks!