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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] IB/rxe: don't crash, if allocation of crc algorithm failed
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 10:20:18AM +0300, Moni Shoua wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Thomas Bogendoerfer
> <tbogendoerfer@suse.de> wrote:
> > 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@suse.de>
> Fix looks good only a Fixes line is missing from the commit message. Please add.

temporay -> temporary

Thanks

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