This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: microchip: sparx5: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in sparx_stats_init() and sparx5_start() to the 6.0-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-microchip-sparx5-fix-potential-null-ptr-deref-in.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7e0428e9a99649d618bc2f25f63868e4f109a3be Author: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 14 21:38:53 2022 +0800 net: microchip: sparx5: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in sparx_stats_init() and sparx5_start() [ Upstream commit 639f5d006e36bb303f525d9479448c412b720c39 ] sparx_stats_init() calls create_singlethread_workqueue() and not checked the ret value, which may return NULL. And a null-ptr-deref may happen: sparx_stats_init() create_singlethread_workqueue() # failed, sparx5->stats_queue is NULL queue_delayed_work() queue_delayed_work_on() __queue_delayed_work() # warning here, but continue __queue_work() # access wq->flags, null-ptr-deref Check the ret value and return -ENOMEM if it is NULL. So as sparx5_start(). Fixes: af4b11022e2d ("net: sparx5: add ethtool configuration and statistics support") Fixes: b37a1bae742f ("net: sparx5: add mactable support") Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_ethtool.c index 6b0febcb7fa9..01f3a3a41cdb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_ethtool.c @@ -1253,6 +1253,9 @@ int sparx_stats_init(struct sparx5 *sparx5) snprintf(queue_name, sizeof(queue_name), "%s-stats", dev_name(sparx5->dev)); sparx5->stats_queue = create_singlethread_workqueue(queue_name); + if (!sparx5->stats_queue) + return -ENOMEM; + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&sparx5->stats_work, sparx5_check_stats_work); queue_delayed_work(sparx5->stats_queue, &sparx5->stats_work, SPX5_STATS_CHECK_DELAY); diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.c index 01be7bd84181..30815c0e3f76 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.c @@ -657,6 +657,9 @@ static int sparx5_start(struct sparx5 *sparx5) snprintf(queue_name, sizeof(queue_name), "%s-mact", dev_name(sparx5->dev)); sparx5->mact_queue = create_singlethread_workqueue(queue_name); + if (!sparx5->mact_queue) + return -ENOMEM; + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&sparx5->mact_work, sparx5_mact_pull_work); queue_delayed_work(sparx5->mact_queue, &sparx5->mact_work, SPX5_MACT_PULL_DELAY);