This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: bcmgenet: check return value after calling platform_get_resource() 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: net-bcmgenet-check-return-value-after-calling-platfo.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 c5353e4daf3b782e1b9fa3d006733b2d1a04bda6 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jun 7 21:38:37 2021 +0800 net: bcmgenet: check return value after calling platform_get_resource() [ Upstream commit 74325bf0104573c6dfce42837139aeef3f34be76 ] It will cause null-ptr-deref if platform_get_resource() returns NULL, we need check the return value. Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c index dbe18cdf6c1b..ce569b7d3b35 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c @@ -426,6 +426,10 @@ static int bcmgenet_mii_register(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv) int id, ret; pres = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); + if (!pres) { + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Invalid resource\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } memset(&res, 0, sizeof(res)); memset(&ppd, 0, sizeof(ppd));