From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sudhakar.dindukurti@oracle.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com,
rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, dotanb@dev.mellanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/rds: Fix error handling in rds_ib_add_one()
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:18:09 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191002.121809.873130939496092066.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1569950462-37680-1-git-send-email-sudhakar.dindukurti@oracle.com>
From: Sudhakar Dindukurti <sudhakar.dindukurti@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 10:21:02 -0700
> From: Dotan Barak <dotanb@dev.mellanox.co.il>
>
> rds_ibdev:ipaddr_list and rds_ibdev:conn_list are initialized
> after allocation some resources such as protection domain.
> If allocation of such resources fail, then these uninitialized
> variables are accessed in rds_ib_dev_free() in failure path. This
> can potentially crash the system. The code has been updated to
> initialize these variables very early in the function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dotan Barak <dotanb@dev.mellanox.co.il>
> Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Dindukurti <sudhakar.dindukurti@oracle.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-02 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-01 17:21 [PATCH net] net/rds: Fix error handling in rds_ib_add_one() Sudhakar Dindukurti
2019-10-01 17:47 ` santosh.shilimkar
2019-10-02 16:18 ` David Miller [this message]
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