Commit 72ca46e3 authored by Mustafa Ismail's avatar Mustafa Ismail Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

i40iw: Do not set self-referencing pointer to NULL after kfree

commit 7eaf8313 upstream.

In i40iw_free_virt_mem(), do not set mem->va to NULL
after freeing it as mem->va is a self-referencing pointer
to mem.

Fixes: 4e9042e6 ("i40iw: add hw and utils files")
Reported-by: default avatarStefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent f75f0a0a
......@@ -673,8 +673,11 @@ enum i40iw_status_code i40iw_free_virt_mem(struct i40iw_hw *hw,
{
if (!mem)
return I40IW_ERR_PARAM;
/*
* mem->va points to the parent of mem, so both mem and mem->va
* can not be touched once mem->va is freed
*/
kfree(mem->va);
mem->va = NULL;
return 0;
}
......
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