[PATCH net 1/1] net/mlx5: Avoid dereferencing uninitialized pointer
From: Saeed Mahameed <hidden>
Date: 2017-03-28 13:25:33
Subsystem:
mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Saeed Mahameed, Leon Romanovsky, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Talat Batheesh <redacted> In NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER event the upper_info field is valid only when linking is true. Otherwise it should be ignored. Fixes: 7907f23adc18 (net/mlx5: Implement RoCE LAG feature) Signed-off-by: Talat Batheesh <redacted> Reviewed-by: Aviv Heller <redacted> Reviewed-by: Moni Shoua <redacted> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <redacted> --- Hi Dave, I will appreciate it if you queue up this patch for v4.9-stable. Thanks in advance, Saeed. drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c
index 55957246c0e8..b5d5519542e8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag.c@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ static int mlx5_handle_changeupper_event(struct mlx5_lag *ldev, struct netdev_notifier_changeupper_info *info) { struct net_device *upper = info->upper_dev, *ndev_tmp; - struct netdev_lag_upper_info *lag_upper_info; + struct netdev_lag_upper_info *lag_upper_info = NULL; bool is_bonded; int bond_status = 0; int num_slaves = 0;
@@ -303,7 +303,8 @@ static int mlx5_handle_changeupper_event(struct mlx5_lag *ldev, if (!netif_is_lag_master(upper)) return 0; - lag_upper_info = info->upper_info; + if (info->linking) + lag_upper_info = info->upper_info; /* The event may still be of interest if the slave does not belong to * us, but is enslaved to a master which has one or more of our netdevs
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