[PATCH][next] net/mlx5: fix dereference on pointer flow before null check

From: Colin King
Date: Mon Sep 28 2020 - 11:52:49 EST


From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently pointer flow is being dereferenced before it is being
null checked. Fix this by adding a null check for flow and parse_attr
earlier. Also change the err_free path to explicitly return -ENOMEM
and remove the need for the err return variable.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null")
Fixes: c620b772152b ("net/mlx5: Refactor tc flow attributes structure")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
index f815b0c60a6c..a2fa2d22d695 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
@@ -4534,20 +4534,20 @@ mlx5e_alloc_flow(struct mlx5e_priv *priv, int attr_size,
struct mlx5e_tc_flow_parse_attr *parse_attr;
struct mlx5_flow_attr *attr;
struct mlx5e_tc_flow *flow;
- int out_index, err;
+ int out_index;

flow = kzalloc(sizeof(*flow), GFP_KERNEL);
parse_attr = kvzalloc(sizeof(*parse_attr), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!parse_attr || !flow)
+ goto err_free;

flow->flags = flow_flags;
flow->cookie = f->cookie;
flow->priv = priv;

attr = mlx5_alloc_flow_attr(get_flow_name_space(flow));
- if (!parse_attr || !flow || !attr) {
- err = -ENOMEM;
- goto err_free;
- }
+ if (!attr)
+ goto err_free_flow;
flow->attr = attr;

for (out_index = 0; out_index < MLX5_MAX_FLOW_FWD_VPORTS; out_index++)
@@ -4562,11 +4562,12 @@ mlx5e_alloc_flow(struct mlx5e_priv *priv, int attr_size,

return 0;

-err_free:
+err_free_flow:
kfree(flow);
+err_free:
kvfree(parse_attr);
kfree(attr);
- return err;
+ return -ENOMEM;
}

static void
--
2.27.0