Re: [EXT] Re: [net PATCH 5/9] octeontx2-pf: mcs: Fix NULL pointer dereferences

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Wed Apr 26 2023 - 02:52:30 EST


On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 09:16:54AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 08:51:40AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:29:02 +0000 Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta wrote:
> > > >How did you get call to .mdo_del_secy if you didn't add any secy?
> > > >
> > > >Thanks
> > > >
> > > It is because of the order of teardown in otx2_remove:
> > > cn10k_mcs_free(pf);
> > > unregister_netdev(netdev);
> > >
> > > cn10k_mcs_free free the resources and makes cfg as NULL.
> > > Later unregister_netdev calls mdo_del_secy and finds cfg as NULL.
> > > Thanks for the review I will change the order and submit next version.
> >
> > Leon, ack? Looks like the patches got "changes requested" but I see
> > no other complaint.
>
> Honestly, I was confused and didn't know what to answer, so decided to
> see next version.
>
> From one side Subbaraya said that it is possible (which was not
> convincing to me, but ok, most time I'm wrong :)), from another
> he said that he will submit next version.

Jakub,

v2 is perfectly fine.

Thanks

>
> Thanks