[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 237/252] net/mlx5: DR, fix a potential use-after-free bug

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Thu Sep 09 2021 - 08:10:16 EST


From: Wentao_Liang <Wentao_Liang_g@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 6cc64770fb386b10a64a1fe09328396de7bb5262 ]

In line 849 (#1), "mlx5dr_htbl_put(cur_htbl);" drops the reference to
cur_htbl and may cause cur_htbl to be freed.

However, cur_htbl is subsequently used in the next line, which may result
in an use-after-free bug.

Fix this by calling mlx5dr_err() before the cur_htbl is put.

Signed-off-by: Wentao_Liang <Wentao_Liang_g@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_rule.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_rule.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_rule.c
index 43356fad53de..ffdfb5a94b14 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_rule.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_rule.c
@@ -846,9 +846,9 @@ dr_rule_handle_ste_branch(struct mlx5dr_rule *rule,
new_htbl = dr_rule_rehash(rule, nic_rule, cur_htbl,
ste_location, send_ste_list);
if (!new_htbl) {
- mlx5dr_htbl_put(cur_htbl);
mlx5dr_err(dmn, "Failed creating rehash table, htbl-log_size: %d\n",
cur_htbl->chunk_size);
+ mlx5dr_htbl_put(cur_htbl);
} else {
cur_htbl = new_htbl;
}
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