[ofa-general] [PATCH] IB/core: fix null pointer dereference in local_completions()

Ralph Campbell ralph.campbell at qlogic.com
Wed Feb 25 16:36:03 PST 2009


handle_outgoing_dr_smp() can queue a struct ib_mad_local_private *local
on the mad_agent_priv->local_work work queue with
local->mad_priv == NULL if device->process_mad() returns
IB_MAD_RESULT_SUCCESS | IB_MAD_RESULT_REPLY and
(!ib_response_mad(&mad_priv->mad.mad) ||
 !mad_agent_priv->agent.recv_handler).

In this case, local_completions() will be called with
local->mad_priv == NULL. The code does check for this
case and skips calling recv_mad_agent->agent.recv_handler()
but recv == 0 so kmem_cache_free() is called with a
NULL pointer.

Also, since recv isn't reinitialized each time through the loop,
it can cause a memory leak if recv should have been zero.

Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell at qlogic.com>

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
index 5c54fc2..8388e5e 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
@@ -2356,7 +2356,7 @@ static void local_completions(struct work_struct *work)
 	struct ib_mad_local_private *local;
 	struct ib_mad_agent_private *recv_mad_agent;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	int recv = 0;
+	int recv;
 	struct ib_wc wc;
 	struct ib_mad_send_wc mad_send_wc;
 
@@ -2370,14 +2370,15 @@ static void local_completions(struct work_struct *work)
 				   completion_list);
 		list_del(&local->completion_list);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mad_agent_priv->lock, flags);
+		recv = 1;
 		if (local->mad_priv) {
 			recv_mad_agent = local->recv_mad_agent;
 			if (!recv_mad_agent) {
 				printk(KERN_ERR PFX "No receive MAD agent for local completion\n");
+				recv = 0;
 				goto local_send_completion;
 			}
 
-			recv = 1;
 			/*
 			 * Defined behavior is to complete response
 			 * before request





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