From 594619497f3d6d4b8d8440e6d380e8da9dcc9eeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:44:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Fix use-after-free _rule_ is being freed and then dereferenced by accessing rule->ctx Fix this by copying the value returned by PTR_ERR(rule->ctx) into a local variable for its safe use after freeing _rule_ Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1466041 ("Read from pointer after free") Fixes: 05564d0ae075 ("net/mlx5: Add flow-steering commands for FPGA IPSec implementation") Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c index 4f1568528738..0f5da499a223 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c @@ -1061,8 +1061,9 @@ static int fpga_ipsec_fs_create_fte(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, rule->ctx = mlx5_fpga_ipsec_fs_create_sa_ctx(dev, fte, is_egress); if (IS_ERR(rule->ctx)) { + int err = PTR_ERR(rule->ctx); kfree(rule); - return PTR_ERR(rule->ctx); + return err; } rule->fte = fte; -- GitLab