[PATCH 5.6 113/194] IB/core: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in pkey cache

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 18 2020 - 14:11:37 EST


From: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 1901b91f99821955eac2bd48fe25ee983385dc00 ]

The IB core pkey cache is populated by procedure ib_cache_update().
Initially, the pkey cache pointer is NULL. ib_cache_update allocates a
buffer and populates it with the device's pkeys, via repeated calls to
procedure ib_query_pkey().

If there is a failure in populating the pkey buffer via ib_query_pkey(),
ib_cache_update does not replace the old pkey buffer cache with the
updated one -- it leaves the old cache as is.

Since initially the pkey buffer cache is NULL, when calling
ib_cache_update the first time, a failure in ib_query_pkey() will cause
the pkey buffer cache pointer to remain NULL.

In this situation, any calls subsequent to ib_get_cached_pkey(),
ib_find_cached_pkey(), or ib_find_cached_pkey_exact() will try to
dereference the NULL pkey cache pointer, causing a kernel panic.

Fix this by checking the ib_cache_update() return value.

Fixes: 8faea9fd4a39 ("RDMA/cache: Move the cache per-port data into the main ib_port_data")
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507071012.100594-1-leon@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
index 17bfedd24cc34..4619629b958cd 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
@@ -1536,8 +1536,11 @@ int ib_cache_setup_one(struct ib_device *device)
if (err)
return err;

- rdma_for_each_port (device, p)
- ib_cache_update(device, p, true);
+ rdma_for_each_port (device, p) {
+ err = ib_cache_update(device, p, true);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }

return 0;
}
--
2.20.1