This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: lpfc: fix: Coverity: lpfc_cmpl_els_rsp(): Null pointer dereferences to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scsi-lpfc-fix-coverity-lpfc_cmpl_els_rsp-null-pointe.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7319d3de39f5911eba25fc8cf8dcbae791b7f50d Author: James Smart <jsmart2021@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 11 15:03:57 2019 -0800 scsi: lpfc: fix: Coverity: lpfc_cmpl_els_rsp(): Null pointer dereferences [ Upstream commit 6c6d59e0fe5b86cf273d6d744a6a9768c4ecc756 ] Coverity reported the following: *** CID 101747: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL) /drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c: 4439 in lpfc_cmpl_els_rsp() 4433 kfree(mp); 4434 } 4435 mempool_free(mbox, phba->mbox_mem_pool); 4436 } 4437 out: 4438 if (ndlp && NLP_CHK_NODE_ACT(ndlp)) { vvv CID 101747: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL) vvv Dereferencing null pointer "shost". 4439 spin_lock_irq(shost->host_lock); 4440 ndlp->nlp_flag &= ~(NLP_ACC_REGLOGIN | NLP_RM_DFLT_RPI); 4441 spin_unlock_irq(shost->host_lock); 4442 4443 /* If the node is not being used by another discovery thread, 4444 * and we are sending a reject, we are done with it. Fix by adding a check for non-null shost in line 4438. The scenario when shost is set to null is when ndlp is null. As such, the ndlp check present was sufficient. But better safe than sorry so add the shost check. Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 101747 ("Null pointer dereferences") Fixes: 2e0fef85e098 ("[SCSI] lpfc: NPIV: split ports") CC: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: linux-next@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191111230401.12958-3-jsmart2021@xxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c index 4f4d1b3b3bbc..7398350b08b4 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c @@ -4110,7 +4110,7 @@ lpfc_cmpl_els_rsp(struct lpfc_hba *phba, struct lpfc_iocbq *cmdiocb, mempool_free(mbox, phba->mbox_mem_pool); } out: - if (ndlp && NLP_CHK_NODE_ACT(ndlp)) { + if (ndlp && NLP_CHK_NODE_ACT(ndlp) && shost) { spin_lock_irq(shost->host_lock); ndlp->nlp_flag &= ~(NLP_ACC_REGLOGIN | NLP_RM_DFLT_RPI); spin_unlock_irq(shost->host_lock);