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 5.10-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-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 17b146dad243f35f9db3b9b3b664a4edb535a139 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 3148fe7703564..cb6897c2193c2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c @@ -597,6 +597,9 @@ 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);