[PATCH 2/2] IB/rxe: don't crash, if allocation of crc algorithm failed

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Fri Oct 27 2017 - 12:01:14 EST


Following crash happens, if crc algorithm couldn't be allocated:

[ 1087.989072] rdma_rxe: loaded
[ 1097.855397] PCLMULQDQ-NI instructions are not detected.
[ 1097.901220] rdma_rxe: failed to allocate crc algorithmi err:-2
[ 1097.901248] BUG: unable to handle kernel
[ 1097.901249] NULL pointer dereference
[ 1097.901250] at 0000000000000046
[...]

Reason is that rxe->tfm is assigned the error return, which will then
be used for crypto_free_shash() in rxe_cleanup. Fix by using a
temporay variable and assigning it rxe->tfm after allocation succeeded.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c
index ff77f4f66970..d03002b9d84d 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c
@@ -1192,6 +1192,7 @@ int rxe_register_device(struct rxe_dev *rxe)
int err;
int i;
struct ib_device *dev = &rxe->ib_dev;
+ struct crypto_shash *tfm;

strlcpy(dev->name, "rxe%d", IB_DEVICE_NAME_MAX);
strlcpy(dev->node_desc, "rxe", sizeof(dev->node_desc));
@@ -1289,12 +1290,13 @@ int rxe_register_device(struct rxe_dev *rxe)
dev->get_hw_stats = rxe_ib_get_hw_stats;
dev->alloc_hw_stats = rxe_ib_alloc_hw_stats;

- rxe->tfm = crypto_alloc_shash("crc32", 0, 0);
- if (IS_ERR(rxe->tfm)) {
+ tfm = crypto_alloc_shash("crc32", 0, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(tfm)) {
pr_err("failed to allocate crc algorithm err:%ld\n",
- PTR_ERR(rxe->tfm));
- return PTR_ERR(rxe->tfm);
+ PTR_ERR(tfm));
+ return PTR_ERR(tfm);
}
+ rxe->tfm = tfm;

err = ib_register_device(dev, NULL);
if (err) {
--
2.12.3