From: Roland Dreier Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:33:43 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [IB] ib_umad: fix crash when freeing send buffers X-Git-Url: http://git.mmlx.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=089a1bedd84be16a4f49a319e7ccb4a128da5ce9;p=linux-edison.git [IB] ib_umad: fix crash when freeing send buffers The conversion of user_mad.c to the new MAD send API was slightly off: in a few places, we used packet->msg instead of packet->msg->mad when referring to the actual data buffer, which ended up corrupting the underlying data structure and crashing when we free an invalid pointer. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier --- diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c index fc5519a3de9..a48166a8e04 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c @@ -398,12 +398,12 @@ static ssize_t ib_umad_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, * transaction ID matches the agent being used to send the * MAD. */ - method = ((struct ib_mad_hdr *) packet->msg)->method; + method = ((struct ib_mad_hdr *) packet->msg->mad)->method; if (!(method & IB_MGMT_METHOD_RESP) && method != IB_MGMT_METHOD_TRAP_REPRESS && method != IB_MGMT_METHOD_SEND) { - tid = &((struct ib_mad_hdr *) packet->msg)->tid; + tid = &((struct ib_mad_hdr *) packet->msg->mad)->tid; *tid = cpu_to_be64(((u64) agent->hi_tid) << 32 | (be64_to_cpup(tid) & 0xffffffff)); }