On Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 01:50:08AM +0100, Sebastian Roland Wolf wrote:

From: Sebastian Roland Wolf <redacted>

Add a null pointer check to prevent kernel crashes when hardware
offloading is active on MediaTek devices.

In some edge cases, the ethernet pointer or its associated netdev
element can be NULL. Checking these pointers before access is
mandatory to avoid segmentation faults and kernel oops.

This improves the robustness of the validation check for mtk_eth
ingress devices introduced in commit 73cfd947dbdb ("net: mediatek:
add support for ingress traffic offloading").

Fixes: 73cfd947dbdb ("net: mediatek: add support for ingress traffic offloading")
net: mediatek: Add null pointer check to prevent crashes with active hardware offloading.

Hi Sebastian,

I agree that the cited hash is a good commit to reference, but
I think the Fixes line has been mangled. A correct tag for that hash is:

Fixes: 73cfd947dbdb ("net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: ppe: prevent ppe update for non-mtk devices")

Also, please no blank line here, between the Fixes line and your Signed-off by.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Roland Wolf <redacted>

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