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authorSudarsana Reddy Kalluru <sudarsana.kalluru@cavium.com>2018-06-19 06:58:00 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-06-20 00:15:34 +0200
commit4f9de4df901fb84709fe3a864dfa4eaf35700f68 (patch)
treec7ac1009f5f1c6fb14899c2536cdf1e3fde07398 /drivers/net
parentnet_sched: blackhole: tell upper qdisc about dropped packets (diff)
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qed: Fix possible memory leak in Rx error path handling.
Memory for packet buffers need to be freed in the error paths as there is no consumer (e.g., upper layer) for such packets and that memory will never get freed. The issue was uncovered when port was attacked with flood of isatap packets, these are multicast packets hence were directed at all the PFs. For foce PF, this meant they were routed to the ll2 module which in turn drops such packets. Fixes: 0a7fb11c ("qed: Add Light L2 support") Signed-off-by: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Kalderon <Michal.Kalderon@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_ll2.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_ll2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_ll2.c
index c97ebd681c47..012973d75ad0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_ll2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_ll2.c
@@ -201,8 +201,9 @@ void qed_ll2b_complete_rx_packet(void *cxt, struct qed_ll2_comp_rx_data *data)
skb = build_skb(buffer->data, 0);
if (!skb) {
- rc = -ENOMEM;
- goto out_post;
+ DP_INFO(cdev, "Failed to build SKB\n");
+ kfree(buffer->data);
+ goto out_post1;
}
data->u.placement_offset += NET_SKB_PAD;
@@ -224,8 +225,14 @@ void qed_ll2b_complete_rx_packet(void *cxt, struct qed_ll2_comp_rx_data *data)
cdev->ll2->cbs->rx_cb(cdev->ll2->cb_cookie, skb,
data->opaque_data_0,
data->opaque_data_1);
+ } else {
+ DP_VERBOSE(p_hwfn, (NETIF_MSG_RX_STATUS | NETIF_MSG_PKTDATA |
+ QED_MSG_LL2 | QED_MSG_STORAGE),
+ "Dropping the packet\n");
+ kfree(buffer->data);
}
+out_post1:
/* Update Buffer information and update FW producer */
buffer->data = new_data;
buffer->phys_addr = new_phys_addr;