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Commit 9f134573 authored by Mingming Cao's avatar Mingming Cao Committed by David S. Miller
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ibmvnic fix NULL tx_pools and rx_tools issue at do_reset



At the time of do_rest, ibmvnic tries to re-initalize the tx_pools
and rx_pools to avoid re-allocating the long term buffer. However
there is a window inside do_reset that the tx_pools and
rx_pools were freed before re-initialized making it possible to deference
null pointers.

This patch fix this issue by always check the tx_pool
and rx_pool are not NULL after ibmvnic_login. If so, re-allocating
the pools. This will avoid getting into calling reset_tx/rx_pools with
NULL adapter tx_pools/rx_pools pointer. Also add null pointer check in
reset_tx_pools and reset_rx_pools to safe handle NULL pointer case.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMingming Cao <mmc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2c6500e8
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