smc_ism_register_dmb() returns error codes set by the ISM driver which
are not guaranteed to be negative or in the errno range. Such values
would not be handled by ERR_PTR() and finally the return code will be
used as a memory address.
Fix that by using a valid negative errno value with ERR_PTR().
Fixes: 72b7f6c48708 ("net/smc: unique reason code for exceeded max dmb count")
Signed-off-by: Karsten Graul <kgr...@linux.ibm.com>
---
net/smc/smc_core.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_core.c b/net/smc/smc_core.c
index 5de637472a11..d790c43c473f 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_core.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_core.c
@@ -1615,7 +1615,8 @@ static struct smc_buf_desc *smcd_new_buf_create(struct
smc_link_group *lgr,
rc = smc_ism_register_dmb(lgr, bufsize, buf_desc);
if (rc) {
kfree(buf_desc);
- return (rc == -ENOMEM) ? ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) : ERR_PTR(rc);
+ return (rc == -ENOMEM) ? ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) :
+ ERR_PTR(-EIO);
}
buf_desc->pages = virt_to_page(buf_desc->cpu_addr);
/* CDC header stored in buf. So, pretend it was smaller */
--
2.17.1
