Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: fix 'increment on 0' warning

[Florian Fainelli]

On 11/24/2017 08:36 AM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Setting the refcount to 0 when allocating a tree to match the number of
> switch devices it holds may cause an 'increment on 0; use-after-free',
> if CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL is enabled.
> 
> To fix this, do not decrement the refcount of a newly allocated tree,
> increment it when an already allocated tree is found, and decrement it
> after the probing of a switch, as done with the previous behavior.
> 
> At the same time, make dsa_tree_get and dsa_tree_put accept a NULL
> argument to simplify callers, and return the tree after incrementation,
> as most kref users like of_node_get and of_node_put do.
> 
> Fixes: 8e5bf9759a06 ("net: dsa: simplify tree reference counting")
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
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Florian