[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] e1000: check return value of e1000_read_eeprom

From: Sasha Levin

Date: Mon Apr 20 2026 - 10:02:58 EST


From: Agalakov Daniil <ade@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit d3baa34a470771399c1495bc04b1e26ac15d598e ]

[Why]
e1000_set_eeprom() performs a read-modify-write operation when the write
range is not word-aligned. This requires reading the first and last words
of the range from the EEPROM to preserve the unmodified bytes.

However, the code does not check the return value of e1000_read_eeprom().
If the read fails, the operation continues using uninitialized data from
eeprom_buff. This results in corrupted data being written back to the
EEPROM for the boundary words.

Add the missing error checks and abort the operation if reading fails.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Co-developed-by: Iskhakov Daniil <dish@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Iskhakov Daniil <dish@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Agalakov Daniil <ade@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus:

Error: Failed to generate final synthesis

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
index 726365c567ef3..75d0bfa7530b4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
@@ -496,14 +496,19 @@ static int e1000_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev,
*/
ret_val = e1000_read_eeprom(hw, first_word, 1,
&eeprom_buff[0]);
+ if (ret_val)
+ goto out;
+
ptr++;
}
- if (((eeprom->offset + eeprom->len) & 1) && (ret_val == 0)) {
+ if ((eeprom->offset + eeprom->len) & 1) {
/* need read/modify/write of last changed EEPROM word
* only the first byte of the word is being modified
*/
ret_val = e1000_read_eeprom(hw, last_word, 1,
&eeprom_buff[last_word - first_word]);
+ if (ret_val)
+ goto out;
}

/* Device's eeprom is always little-endian, word addressable */
@@ -522,6 +527,7 @@ static int e1000_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev,
if ((ret_val == 0) && (first_word <= EEPROM_CHECKSUM_REG))
e1000_update_eeprom_checksum(hw);

+out:
kfree(eeprom_buff);
return ret_val;
}
--
2.53.0