On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:49:02 +0800 Jiasheng Jiang wrote: > [PATCH] sfc: potential dereference of null pointer Please give the commit a more unique name. > The return value of kcalloc() needs to be checked. > To avoid dereference of null pointer in case of the failure of alloc, > such as efx_fini_rx_recycle_ring(). > Therefore, it should be better to change the definition of page_ptr_mask > to signed int and then assign the page_ptr_mask to -1 when page_ring is > NULL, in order to avoid the use in the loop in > efx_fini_rx_recycle_ring(). What about uses of this ring, you mention avoiding null-deref in the freeing function but presumably something is actually using this ring at runtime. Seems like we should return -ENOMEM. > Fixes: 3d95b884392f ("sfc: move more rx code") Moving buggy code does not introduce the problem, please find a Fixes tag referring to where the bad code was _introduced_. > Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h | 2 +- > drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx_common.c | 5 ++++- > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h > index 9b4b25704271..beba3e0a6027 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h > @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ struct efx_rx_queue { > unsigned int page_recycle_count; > unsigned int page_recycle_failed; > unsigned int page_recycle_full; > - unsigned int page_ptr_mask; > + int page_ptr_mask; > unsigned int max_fill; > unsigned int fast_fill_trigger; > unsigned int min_fill; > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx_common.c > index 68fc7d317693..d9d0a5805f1c 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx_common.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx_common.c > @@ -150,7 +150,10 @@ static void efx_init_rx_recycle_ring(struct efx_rx_queue *rx_queue) > efx->rx_bufs_per_page); > rx_queue->page_ring = kcalloc(page_ring_size, > sizeof(*rx_queue->page_ring), GFP_KERNEL); > - rx_queue->page_ptr_mask = page_ring_size - 1; > + if (!rx_queue->page_ring) > + rx_queue->page_ptr_mask = -1; > + else > + rx_queue->page_ptr_mask = page_ring_size - 1; > } > > static void efx_fini_rx_recycle_ring(struct efx_rx_queue *rx_queue)