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From: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>,
	Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
	Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
	Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>,
	Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>,
	dev@openvswitch.org (open list:OPENVSWITCH),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR
Date: Thu,  4 Jun 2026 14:19:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260604121946.942164-1-amorenoz@redhat.com> (raw)

After the patch in the "Fixes" tag, the allocation of the "reply" skb
can happen either before or after locking the ovs_mutex.

However, error cleanups still follow the classical reversed order,
assuming "reply" is allocated before locking: it is freed after unlocking.

If "reply" allocation happens after locking the mutex and it fails,
"reply" is left with an ERR_PTR, and execution jumps to the correspondent
cleanup stage which will try to free an invalid pointer.

Fix this by setting the pointer to NULL after having saved its error
value.

Fixes: 893f139b9a6c ("openvswitch: Minimize ovs_flow_cmd_new|set critical sections.")

Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>
---
 net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index bbbde50fc649..f0164817d9b7 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -1316,6 +1316,7 @@ static int ovs_flow_cmd_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 
 		if (IS_ERR(reply)) {
 			error = PTR_ERR(reply);
+			reply = NULL;
 			goto err_unlock_ovs;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.54.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-04 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-04 12:19 Adrian Moreno [this message]
2026-06-04 15:36 ` [ovs-dev] " Aaron Conole
     [not found]   ` <CAJ0BgHcpo68Cx0tL_rRFFzZm8vNpDagF-hfy9KgUhPh4maGfFQ@mail.gmail.com>
2026-06-05 23:50     ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-06-05  6:32 ` Eelco Chaudron
2026-06-09  3:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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