From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-19.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149B7C47082 for ; Mon, 31 May 2021 16:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF15610E7 for ; Mon, 31 May 2021 16:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232173AbhEaQlS (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2021 12:41:18 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:48194 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233464AbhEaOvc (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2021 10:51:32 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5E1E961CA1; Mon, 31 May 2021 13:58:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1622469481; bh=dNkViws1Re3NlgzMIsfHt45FjYCBBp1jhC+qOsw+Y9o=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ZHSo53otqzqOgnw84J6IG3nad0ZzI+oJD+ZcvQwk85ZxrLwLcw5T146wp3piCsomX iQXSdKjm1ZIowJCpWAWIXFgzdmuGXn70mQ7wO4eMkUwquVjm4VhTdtzzohOdlbdC9R SeZdaZdzfik5UUXsikb4qLPP4JdIS3ENDUP7QGBY= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu , Ursula Braun , "David S. Miller" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.12 169/296] Revert "net/smc: fix a NULL pointer dereference" Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 15:13:44 +0200 Message-Id: <20210531130709.547475628@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20210531130703.762129381@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20210531130703.762129381@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [ Upstream commit 5369ead83f5aff223b6418c99cb1fe9a8f007363 ] This reverts commit e183d4e414b64711baf7a04e214b61969ca08dfa. Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were correct or not. Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a later kernel change. The original commit causes a memory leak and does not properly fix the issue it claims to fix. I will send a follow-on patch to resolve this properly. Cc: Kangjie Lu Cc: Ursula Braun Cc: David S. Miller Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-17-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- net/smc/smc_ism.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/smc/smc_ism.c b/net/smc/smc_ism.c index 9c6e95882553..6558cf7643a7 100644 --- a/net/smc/smc_ism.c +++ b/net/smc/smc_ism.c @@ -417,11 +417,6 @@ struct smcd_dev *smcd_alloc_dev(struct device *parent, const char *name, init_waitqueue_head(&smcd->lgrs_deleted); smcd->event_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("ism_evt_wq-%s)", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, name); - if (!smcd->event_wq) { - kfree(smcd->conn); - kfree(smcd); - return NULL; - } return smcd; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smcd_alloc_dev); -- 2.30.2