This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix an Oops in error handling code 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: net-mlx5-e-switch-fix-an-oops-in-error-handling-code.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 2329e60f1351b871a11099ee61feca015cca6ea0 Author: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Feb 27 14:16:10 2023 +0300 net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix an Oops in error handling code [ Upstream commit 640fcdbcf27fc62de9223f958ceb4e897a00e791 ] The error handling dereferences "vport". There is nothing we can do if it is an error pointer except returning the error code. Fixes: 133dcfc577ea ("net/mlx5: E-Switch, Alloc and free unique metadata for match") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c index 548c005ea6335..90a10230bf0cd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/acl/ingress_ofld.c @@ -301,8 +301,7 @@ int mlx5_esw_acl_ingress_vport_bond_update(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, u16 vport_n if (WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(vport))) { esw_warn(esw->dev, "vport(%d) invalid!\n", vport_num); - err = PTR_ERR(vport); - goto out; + return PTR_ERR(vport); } esw_acl_ingress_ofld_rules_destroy(esw, vport);