[PATCH v2] net: liquidio: fix NULL pointer dereferences

From: Kangjie Lu
Date: Fri Mar 22 2019 - 23:24:50 EST


In case octeon_alloc_soft_command fails, the fix reports the
error and goes to cleanup to avoid NULL pointer dereferences.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
---
V2: goto setup_nic_dev_free for cleanup
---
drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c
index 32fea585262b..a3533935e282 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ mmc_spi_readblock(struct mmc_spi_host *host, struct spi_transfer *t,

status = spi_sync_locked(spi, &host->m);
if (status < 0) {
- dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "read error %02x (%d)\n", status, status);
+ dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "read error %d\n", status);
return status;
}

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
index 54b245797d2e..e653072846b0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
@@ -611,6 +611,12 @@ static void send_rx_ctrl_cmd(struct lio *lio, int start_stop)
sc = (struct octeon_soft_command *)
octeon_alloc_soft_command(oct, OCTNET_CMD_SIZE,
16, 0);
+ if (!sc) {
+ netif_info(lio, rx_err, lio->netdev,
+ "Failed to allocate octeon_soft_command\n");
+ return;
+ }
+

ncmd = (union octnet_cmd *)sc->virtdptr;

@@ -1960,6 +1966,12 @@ static int setup_nic_devices(struct octeon_device *octeon_dev)
sc = (struct octeon_soft_command *)
octeon_alloc_soft_command(octeon_dev, data_size,
resp_size, 0);
+ if (!sc) {
+ dev_err(&octeon_dev->pci_dev->dev,
+ "Failed to allocate octeon_soft_command\n");
+ goto setup_nic_dev_free;
+ }
+
resp = (struct liquidio_if_cfg_resp *)sc->virtrptr;
vdata = (struct lio_version *)sc->virtdptr;

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2.17.1