This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sfc_ef100: potential dereference of null pointer
to the 5.15-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:
sfc_ef100-potential-dereference-of-null-pointer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 919579154d0ef21f863c91fc4f2fb175afb03286
Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Dec 15 22:37:31 2021 +0800
sfc_ef100: potential dereference of null pointer
[ Upstream commit 407ecd1bd726f240123f704620d46e285ff30dd9 ]
The return value of kmalloc() needs to be checked.
To avoid use in efx_nic_update_stats() in case of the failure of alloc.
Fixes: b593b6f1b492 ("sfc_ef100: statistics gathering")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c
index 518268ce20644..d35cafd422b1c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c
@@ -609,6 +609,9 @@ static size_t ef100_update_stats(struct efx_nic *efx,
ef100_common_stat_mask(mask);
ef100_ethtool_stat_mask(mask);
+ if (!mc_stats)
+ return 0;
+
efx_nic_copy_stats(efx, mc_stats);
efx_nic_update_stats(ef100_stat_desc, EF100_STAT_COUNT, mask,
stats, mc_stats, false);
