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 4.9-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-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 287315f1a9b05a55c6eb39e146bc41845f412b36 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 427d4dbc97354..ac03bba10e4fd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c @@ -1457,6 +1457,9 @@ 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;