# \[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 01/34\] ibmvnic: check failover\_pending in login response

- From: Sasha Levin \<sashal@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2021-09-23 03:38:48 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/09/1519010
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/stable/2021/09/1519010/t.md

```text
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <redacted>

[ Upstream commit d437f5aa23aa2b7bd07cd44b839d7546cc17166f ]

If a failover occurs before a login response is received, the login
response buffer maybe undefined. Check that there was no failover
before accessing the login response buffer.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index a775c69e4fd7..6aa6ff89a765 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -4700,6 +4700,14 @@ static int handle_login_rsp(union ibmvnic_crq *login_rsp_crq,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (adapter->failover_pending) {
+		adapter->init_done_rc = -EAGAIN;
+		netdev_dbg(netdev, "Failover pending, ignoring login response\n");
+		complete(&adapter->init_done);
+		/* login response buffer will be released on reset */
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	netdev->mtu = adapter->req_mtu - ETH_HLEN;
 
 	netdev_dbg(adapter->netdev, "Login Response Buffer:\n");
-- 
2.30.2

```
