This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iavf: validate pointers
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:
iavf-validate-pointers.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 e82bcd6939328cbf13c0beceddd5b07ea46a0efd
Author: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 4 09:48:58 2021 -0700
iavf: validate pointers
[ Upstream commit 131b0edc4028bb88bb472456b1ddba526cfb7036 ]
In some cases, the ethtool get_rxfh handler may be called with a null
key or indir parameter. So check these pointers, or you will have a very
bad day.
Fixes: 43a3d9ba34c9 ("i40evf: Allow PF driver to configure RSS")
Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tony.brelinski@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.c
index 758bef02a2a86..ad1e796e5544a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.c
@@ -962,14 +962,13 @@ static int iavf_get_rxfh(struct net_device *netdev, u32 *indir, u8 *key,
if (hfunc)
*hfunc = ETH_RSS_HASH_TOP;
- if (!indir)
- return 0;
-
- memcpy(key, adapter->rss_key, adapter->rss_key_size);
+ if (key)
+ memcpy(key, adapter->rss_key, adapter->rss_key_size);
- /* Each 32 bits pointed by 'indir' is stored with a lut entry */
- for (i = 0; i < adapter->rss_lut_size; i++)
- indir[i] = (u32)adapter->rss_lut[i];
+ if (indir)
+ /* Each 32 bits pointed by 'indir' is stored with a lut entry */
+ for (i = 0; i < adapter->rss_lut_size; i++)
+ indir[i] = (u32)adapter->rss_lut[i];
return 0;
}
