From ee30dd2909d8b98619f4341c70ec8dc8e155ab02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Moreno Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 14:19:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR 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 Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604121946.942164-1-amorenoz@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- 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; } }