Re: [PATCH v2 net] ice: Fix freeing uninitialized pointers

[Jiri Pirko]

Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 03:42:12PM CET, dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Automatically cleaned up pointers need to be initialized before exiting
>their scope.  In this case, they need to be initialized to NULL before
>any return statement.
>
>Fixes: 90f821d72e11 ("ice: avoid unnecessary devm_ usage")
>Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx>


>---
>v2: I missed a couple pointers in v1.
>
>The change to ice_update_link_info() isn't required because it's
>assigned on the very next line...  But I did that because it's harmless
>and makes __free() stuff easier to verify.  I felt like moving the
>declarations into the code would be controversial and it also ends up
>making the lines really long.
>
>		goto goto err_unroll_sched;
>
>	struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree) =
>		kzalloc(sizeof(*pcaps), GFP_KERNEL);

Yeah, that is why I'm proposing KZALLOC_FREE helper:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240315132249.2515468-1-jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx/


>
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c | 10 +++++-----
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c | 2 +-
> 2 file changed, 6 insertion(+), 6 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
>index 4d8111aeb0ff..6f2db603b36e 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
>@@ -1002,8 +1002,8 @@ static void ice_get_itr_intrl_gran(struct ice_hw *hw)
>  */
> int ice_init_hw(struct ice_hw *hw)
> {
>-	struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree);
>-	void *mac_buf __free(kfree);
>+	struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree) = NULL;
>+	void *mac_buf __free(kfree) = NULL;
> 	u16 mac_buf_len;
> 	int status;
> 
>@@ -3272,7 +3272,7 @@ int ice_update_link_info(struct ice_port_info *pi)
> 		return status;
> 
> 	if (li->link_info & ICE_AQ_MEDIA_AVAILABLE) {
>-		struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree);
>+		struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree) = NULL;
> 
> 		pcaps = kzalloc(sizeof(*pcaps), GFP_KERNEL);
> 		if (!pcaps)
>@@ -3420,7 +3420,7 @@ ice_cfg_phy_fc(struct ice_port_info *pi, struct ice_aqc_set_phy_cfg_data *cfg,
> int
> ice_set_fc(struct ice_port_info *pi, u8 *aq_failures, bool ena_auto_link_update)
> {
>-	struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree);
>+	struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree) = NULL;
> 	struct ice_aqc_set_phy_cfg_data cfg = { 0 };
> 	struct ice_hw *hw;
> 	int status;
>@@ -3561,7 +3561,7 @@ int
> ice_cfg_phy_fec(struct ice_port_info *pi, struct ice_aqc_set_phy_cfg_data *cfg,
> 		enum ice_fec_mode fec)
> {
>-	struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree);
>+	struct ice_aqc_get_phy_caps_data *pcaps __free(kfree) = NULL;
> 	struct ice_hw *hw;
> 	int status;
> 
>diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
>index 255a9c8151b4..78b833b3e1d7 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
>@@ -941,11 +941,11 @@ static u64 ice_loopback_test(struct net_device *netdev)
> 	struct ice_netdev_priv *np = netdev_priv(netdev);
> 	struct ice_vsi *orig_vsi = np->vsi, *test_vsi;
> 	struct ice_pf *pf = orig_vsi->back;
>+	u8 *tx_frame __free(kfree) = NULL;
> 	u8 broadcast[ETH_ALEN], ret = 0;
> 	int num_frames, valid_frames;
> 	struct ice_tx_ring *tx_ring;
> 	struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring;
>-	u8 *tx_frame __free(kfree);
> 	int i;
> 
> 	netdev_info(netdev, "loopback test\n");
>-- 
>2.43.0
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