[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 202/206] net: ehea: avoid null pointer dereference
From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Thu Jun 09 2016 - 17:23:13 EST
4.2.8-ckt12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "xypron.glpk@xxxxxx" <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx>
commit 1740c29a46b30a2f157afc473156f157e599d4c2 upstream.
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>
Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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);
--
2.7.4