Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix avoid intensive reconnecting for ko2iblnd patch

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 03:01:49PM +0000, Eremin, Dmitry wrote:
> In the original commit 4d99b2581effe115376402e710fbcb1c3c073769

Please use the documented way to write this:
	4d99b2581eff ("staging: lustre: avoid intensive reconnecting for ko2iblnd")

> was missed one hunk. Added it now to avoid issue with use after free.

And I do not understand this commit message at all.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin <Dmitry.Eremin@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c
> index 2ebc484..a15a625 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c
> @@ -890,7 +890,8 @@ void kiblnd_destroy_conn(struct kib_conn *conn, bool free_conn)
>  		atomic_dec(&net->ibn_nconns);
>  	}
>  
> -	kfree(conn);
> +	if (free_conn)
> +		kfree(conn);

This looks really odd, don't you think?

thanks,

greg k-h