Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2011-03-18

Re: [PATCH] ethtool: __ethtool_set_sg: check for function pointer before using it

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From: Michał Mirosław <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-17 17:01:03

2011/3/17 Roger Luethi [off-list ref]:
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__ethtool_set_sg does not check if dev->ethtool_ops->set_sg is defined
which can result in a NULL pointer dereference when ethtool is used to
change SG settings for drivers without SG support.

Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <redacted>
---

Bug verified. Patch only compile-tested.

 net/core/ethtool.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index c1a71bb..a1086fb 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -1457,6 +1457,9 @@ static int __ethtool_set_sg(struct net_device *dev, u32 data)
 {
       int err;

+       if (!dev->ethtool_ops->set_sg)
+               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
       if (data && !(dev->features & NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM))
               return -EINVAL;
Yes. __ethtool_set_sg() is the only function that was already there
before my unification series and I did tests only on drivers which had
set_sg() defined. :-/

This should go into 2.6.39 as a bugfix (adding Cc: DaveM).

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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