[ofa-general] [PATCH] IB/IPoIB Check if grat. ARP changed had arrived when working in connected mode

[Eli Cohen]

Now you may call ipoib_put_ah(neigh->ah) for a CM neighbor and this
could cause de-reference of a NULL pointer.

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:44 +0200, Moni Shoua wrote:
> move a little up the code that checks for a situation where the remote GID stored in the ipoib_neigh is
>     different than the one present in the neighbour (handle Gratuitous ARP) or that a bonding fail over has
>     happened but the neighbour still has a pointer to an ipoib_neigh created not by the current slave. This
>     will cause the driver to apply the check also for connected mode neighbours.
>     This patch was tested against upstream kernel and ofed_kernel.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at voltaire.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
> 
> diff --git a/kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0120_check_grat_arp_with_cm.patch b/kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0120_check_grat_arp_with_cm.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..8b2c32e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0120_check_grat_arp_with_cm.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> +Index: ofa_kernel-1.3/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> +===================================================================
> +--- ofa_kernel-1.3.orig/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c	2008-01-29 08:55:33.000000000 -0500
> ++++ ofa_kernel-1.3/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c	2008-01-29 09:17:30.000000000 -0500
> +@@ -716,12 +716,7 @@
> + 
> + 		neigh = *to_ipoib_neigh(skb->dst->neighbour);
> + 
> +-		if (ipoib_cm_get(neigh)) {
> +-			if (ipoib_cm_up(neigh)) {
> +-				ipoib_cm_send(dev, skb, ipoib_cm_get(neigh));
> +-				goto out;
> +-			}
> +-		} else if (neigh->ah) {
> ++		if (neigh->ah)
> + 			if (unlikely((memcmp(&neigh->dgid.raw,
> + 					    skb->dst->neighbour->ha + 4,
> + 					    sizeof(union ib_gid))) ||
> +@@ -742,9 +737,14 @@
> + 				goto out;
> + 			}
> + 
> ++		if (ipoib_cm_get(neigh)) {
> ++			if (ipoib_cm_up(neigh)) {
> ++				ipoib_cm_send(dev, skb, ipoib_cm_get(neigh));
> ++				goto out;
> ++			}
> ++		} else if (neigh->ah) {
> + 			ipoib_send(dev, skb, neigh->ah,
> + 				   IPOIB_QPN(skb->dst->neighbour->ha));
> +-
> + 			goto out;
> + 		}
> + 
> 
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