From patchwork Mon Mar 20 23:47:04 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" X-Patchwork-Id: 741312 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3vnCLB3CcTz9s3l for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:47:46 +1100 (AEDT) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932147AbdCTXrW (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:47:22 -0400 Received: from mga05.intel.com ([192.55.52.43]:49349 "EHLO mga05.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755902AbdCTXrU (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:47:20 -0400 Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Mar 2017 16:47:18 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.36,196,1486454400"; d="scan'208";a="1125082653" Received: from aloteanu-mobl1.amr.corp.intel.com (HELO jtkirshe-DESK.amr.corp.intel.com.com) ([10.255.74.86]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Mar 2017 16:47:18 -0700 From: Jeff Kirsher To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: Jacob Keller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, jogreene@redhat.com, Jeff Kirsher Subject: [net-next 05/13] i40e: rework exit flow of i40e_add_fdir_ethtool Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:47:04 -0700 Message-Id: <20170320234712.84157-6-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.12.0 In-Reply-To: <20170320234712.84157-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> References: <20170320234712.84157-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Jacob Keller Refactor the exit flow of the i40e_add_fdir_ethtool function. Move the input_label to the end of the function, removing the dependency on having a non-zero return value. Add a comment explaining why it is ok not to free the fdir data structure, because the structure is now stored in the fdir_filter_list. Change-Id: I723342181d59cd0c9f3b31140c37961ba37bb242 Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller Tested-by: Andrew Bowers Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c index 7a22b473dbdd..d16a5a6b24fc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c @@ -2828,12 +2828,19 @@ static int i40e_add_fdir_ethtool(struct i40e_vsi *vsi, } ret = i40e_add_del_fdir(vsi, input, true); -free_input: if (ret) - kfree(input); - else - i40e_update_ethtool_fdir_entry(vsi, input, fsp->location, NULL); + goto free_input; + + /* Add the input filter to the fdir_input_list, possibly replacing + * a previous filter. Do not free the input structure after adding it + * to the list as this would cause a use-after-free bug. + */ + i40e_update_ethtool_fdir_entry(vsi, input, fsp->location, NULL); + return 0; + +free_input: + kfree(input); return ret; }