In igc_clean_rx_irq() the result of a call to igc_xdp_run_prog() is assigned to the skb local variable. This may be an ERR_PTR. A little later the following is executed, which seems to be a possible dereference of an ERR_PTR. total_bytes += skb->len; Avoid this problem by continuing the loop in which all of the above occurs once the handling of the NULL case completes. This proposed fix is speculative - I do not have deep knowledge of this driver. And I am concerned about the effect of skipping the following logic: igc_put_rx_buffer(rx_ring, rx_buffer, rx_buffer_pgcnt); cleaned_count++; Flagged by Smatch as: .../igc_main.c:2467 igc_xdp_run_prog() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR' Compile tested only. Fixes: 26575105d6ed ("igc: Add initial XDP support") Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c index 88145c30c919..b58c8a674bd1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c @@ -2586,6 +2586,7 @@ static int igc_clean_rx_irq(struct igc_q_vector *q_vector, const int budget) total_packets++; total_bytes += size; + continue; } else if (skb) igc_add_rx_frag(rx_ring, rx_buffer, skb, size); else if (ring_uses_build_skb(rx_ring))