netdev - [PATCH] qede: Fix memset corruption

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Message-ID: <20210824165249.7063-1-smalin@marvell.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:52:49 +0300
From:   Shai Malin <smalin@...vell.com>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>,
        <keescook@...omium.org>
CC:     <aelior@...vell.com>, <smalin@...vell.com>, <malin1024@...il.com>,
        Prabhakar Kushwaha <pkushwaha@...vell.com>
Subject: [PATCH] qede: Fix memset corruption

Thanks to Kees Cook who detected the problem of memset that starting
from not the first member, but sized for the whole struct.
The better change will be to remove the redundant memset and to clear
only the msix_cnt member.

Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <pkushwaha@...vell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <aelior@...vell.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Malin <smalin@...vell.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
index d400e9b235bf..a0f20c5337d0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
@@ -1866,6 +1866,7 @@ static void qede_sync_free_irqs(struct qede_dev *edev)
 	}
 
 	edev->int_info.used_cnt = 0;
+	edev->int_info.msix_cnt = 0;
 }
 
 static int qede_req_msix_irqs(struct qede_dev *edev)
@@ -2419,7 +2420,6 @@ static int qede_load(struct qede_dev *edev, enum qede_load_mode mode,
 	goto out;
 err4:
 	qede_sync_free_irqs(edev);
-	memset(&edev->int_info.msix_cnt, 0, sizeof(struct qed_int_info));
 err3:
 	qede_napi_disable_remove(edev);
 err2:
-- 
2.22.0