[PATCH v4 06/17] net/cnxk: fix use-after-free

[Stephen Hemminger]

The driver would refer to the mempool object after it was freed.

Bugzilla ID: 1554
Fixes: 7ea187184a51 ("common/cnxk: support 1-N pool-aura per NIX LF")
Cc: rbhansali at marvell.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_sec.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_sec.c b/drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_sec.c
index 6f5319e534..e428d2115d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_sec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev_sec.c
@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ cnxk_nix_inl_custom_meta_pool_cb(uintptr_t pmpool, uintptr_t *mpool, const char
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 
-		rte_mempool_free(hp);
 		plt_free(hp->pool_config);
+		rte_mempool_free(hp);
 
 		*aura_handle = 0;
 		*mpool = 0;
-- 
2.45.2