[PATCH 1/1] net: ehea: avoid null pointer dereference

From: Heinrich Schuchardt
Date: Tue May 17 2016 - 16:29:21 EST


ehea_get_port may return NULL. Do not dereference NULL value.

Fixes: 8c4877a4128e ("ehea: Use the standard logging functions")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c
index 2a0dc12..54efa9a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c
@@ -1169,16 +1169,15 @@ static void ehea_parse_eqe(struct ehea_adapter *adapter, u64 eqe)
ec = EHEA_BMASK_GET(NEQE_EVENT_CODE, eqe);
portnum = EHEA_BMASK_GET(NEQE_PORTNUM, eqe);
port = ehea_get_port(adapter, portnum);
+ if (!port) {
+ netdev_err(NULL, "unknown portnum %x\n", portnum);
+ return;
+ }
dev = port->netdev;

switch (ec) {
case EHEA_EC_PORTSTATE_CHG: /* port state change */

- if (!port) {
- netdev_err(dev, "unknown portnum %x\n", portnum);
- break;
- }
-
if (EHEA_BMASK_GET(NEQE_PORT_UP, eqe)) {
if (!netif_carrier_ok(dev)) {
ret = ehea_sense_port_attr(port);
--
2.1.4