This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad: return when there's no aggregator 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: drivers-net-bonding-bond_3ad-return-when-there-s-no-.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 957709588ecf1922dd0ea67c5aa8d5c7a71c5e6d Author: Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 2 12:53:35 2023 +0300 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad: return when there's no aggregator [ Upstream commit 9c807965483f42df1d053b7436eedd6cf28ece6f ] Otherwise we would dereference a NULL aggregator pointer when calling __set_agg_ports_ready on the line below. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c index 0d6cd2a4cc41..0c4e6fcac58e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c @@ -1529,6 +1529,7 @@ static void ad_port_selection_logic(struct port *port, bool *update_slave_arr) slave_err(bond->dev, port->slave->dev, "Port %d did not find a suitable aggregator\n", port->actor_port_number); + return; } } /* if all aggregator's ports are READY_N == TRUE, set ready=TRUE