From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 15:59:27 +0300
Subject: net/mlx5: Don't use already freed action pointer
Patch-mainline: v5.19-rc1
Git-commit: 80b2bd737d0e833e6a2b77e482e5a714a79c86a4
References: jsc#PED-1549
The call to mlx5dr_action_destroy() releases "action" memory. That
pointer is set to miss_action later and generates the following smatch
error:
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c:53 set_miss_action()
warn: 'action' was already freed.
Make sure that the pointer is always valid by setting NULL after destroy.
Fixes: 6a48faeeca10 ("net/mlx5: Add direct rule fs_cmd implementation")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/fs_dr.c
@@ -44,11 +44,10 @@ static int set_miss_action(struct mlx5_f
err = mlx5dr_table_set_miss_action(ft->fs_dr_table.dr_table, action);
if (err && action) {
err = mlx5dr_action_destroy(action);
- if (err) {
- action = NULL;
- mlx5_core_err(ns->dev, "Failed to destroy action (%d)\n",
- err);
- }
+ if (err)
+ mlx5_core_err(ns->dev,
+ "Failed to destroy action (%d)\n", err);
+ action = NULL;
}
ft->fs_dr_table.miss_action = action;
if (old_miss_action) {