This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: bnx2x: fix variable dereferenced before check 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: net-bnx2x-fix-variable-dereferenced-before-check.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 90d7e4d5058687cfe05770b273be7a67db766d85 Author: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Nov 14 01:36:36 2021 +0300 net: bnx2x: fix variable dereferenced before check [ Upstream commit f8885ac89ce310570e5391fe0bf0ec9c7c9b4fdc ] Smatch says: bnx2x_init_ops.h:640 bnx2x_ilt_client_mem_op() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'ilt' (see line 638) Move ilt_cli variable initialization _after_ ilt validation, because it's unsafe to deref the pointer before validation check. Fixes: 523224a3b3cd ("bnx2x, cnic, bnx2i: use new FW/HSI") Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_init_ops.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_init_ops.h index 1835d2e451c01..fc7fce642666c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_init_ops.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_init_ops.h @@ -635,11 +635,13 @@ static int bnx2x_ilt_client_mem_op(struct bnx2x *bp, int cli_num, { int i, rc; struct bnx2x_ilt *ilt = BP_ILT(bp); - struct ilt_client_info *ilt_cli = &ilt->clients[cli_num]; + struct ilt_client_info *ilt_cli; if (!ilt || !ilt->lines) return -1; + ilt_cli = &ilt->clients[cli_num]; + if (ilt_cli->flags & (ILT_CLIENT_SKIP_INIT | ILT_CLIENT_SKIP_MEM)) return 0;