This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bnxt_en: Check for zero dir entries in NVRAM.
to the 5.4-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:
bnxt_en-check-for-zero-dir-entries-in-nvram.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 976ac91e404046b5adea78818b54471e86c40a94
Author: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Aug 26 01:08:33 2020 -0400
bnxt_en: Check for zero dir entries in NVRAM.
[ Upstream commit dbbfa96ad920c50d58bcaefa57f5f33ceef9d00e ]
If firmware goes into unstable state, HWRM_NVM_GET_DIR_INFO firmware
command may return zero dir entries. Return error in such case to
avoid zero length dma buffer request.
Fixes: c0c050c58d84 ("bnxt_en: New Broadcom ethernet driver.")
Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
index de9b34a255cf1..fd01bcc8e28d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
@@ -2161,6 +2161,9 @@ static int bnxt_get_nvram_directory(struct net_device *dev, u32 len, u8 *data)
if (rc != 0)
return rc;
+ if (!dir_entries || !entry_length)
+ return -EIO;
+
/* Insert 2 bytes of directory info (count and size of entries) */
if (len < 2)
return -EINVAL;
