Re: [PATCH net] net: enetc: distinguish error from valid pointers in enetc_fixup_clear_rss_rfs()

From: Simon Horman
Date: Wed Sep 06 2023 - 12:41:24 EST


On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 05:16:09PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> enetc_psi_create() returns an ERR_PTR() or a valid station interface
> pointer, but checking for the non-NULL quality of the return code blurs
> that difference away. So if enetc_psi_create() fails, we call
> enetc_psi_destroy() when we shouldn't. This will likely result in
> crashes, since enetc_psi_create() cleans up everything after itself when
> it returns an ERR_PTR().
>
> Fixes: f0168042a212 ("net: enetc: reimplement RFS/RSS memory clearing as PCI quirk")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/582183ef-e03b-402b-8e2d-6d9bb3c83bd9@moroto.mountain/
> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>