[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: fix the security risk of wild pointer operation

[Wei Zhao]

In i40e PMD code of function i40e_res_pool_free(), if valid_entry is
freed by "rte_free(valid_entry);" in the following code:
if (prev != NULL) {
 ........................

   if (insert == 1) {
     LIST_REMOVE(valid_entry, next);
     rte_free(valid_entry);
    } else {
     rte_free(valid_entry);
     insert = 1;
    }
  }

then the following code for pool update may still use the wild pointer
"valid_entry":

" pool->num_free += valid_entry->len;
  pool->num_alloc -= valid_entry>len;
"
it seems to be a security bug, we should avoid this risk.

Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
Fixes: 4861cde46116 ("i40e: new poll mode driver")

Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zh...@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
index 749d85f54..7f8ea5309 100644
--- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
@@ -4973,6 +4973,9 @@ i40e_res_pool_free(struct i40e_res_pool_info *pool,
        }
 
        insert = 0;
+       pool->num_free += valid_entry->len;
+       pool->num_alloc -= valid_entry->len;
+
        /* Try to merge with next one*/
        if (next != NULL) {
                /* Merge with next one */
@@ -5010,9 +5013,6 @@ i40e_res_pool_free(struct i40e_res_pool_info *pool,
                        LIST_INSERT_HEAD(&pool->free_list, valid_entry, next);
        }
 
-       pool->num_free += valid_entry->len;
-       pool->num_alloc -= valid_entry->len;
-
        return 0;
 }
 
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2.17.1