[rds-devel] [PATCH net] net/rds: Fix error handling in rds_ib_add_one()

santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com
Tue Oct 1 10:47:55 PDT 2019


On 10/1/19 10:21 AM, Sudhakar Dindukurti wrote:
> From: Dotan Barak <dotanb at 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 at dev.mellanox.co.il>
> Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Dindukurti <sudhakar.dindukurti at oracle.com>
> ---
Thanks Sudhakar !!

Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com>



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