This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled igb: fix nvm.ops.read() error handling to the 4.14-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: igb-fix-nvm.ops.read-error-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cd9a45cecbc38bbf618f75975477bfd622ae5ac9 Author: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 25 17:44:14 2023 +0200 igb: fix nvm.ops.read() error handling [ Upstream commit 48a821fd58837800750ec1b3962f0f799630a844 ] Add error handling into igb_set_eeprom() function, in case nvm.ops.read() fails just quit with error code asap. Fixes: 9d5c824399de ("igb: PCI-Express 82575 Gigabit Ethernet driver") Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c index 049a67c14780c..77108b0a07f51 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c @@ -831,6 +831,8 @@ static int igb_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev, */ ret_val = hw->nvm.ops.read(hw, last_word, 1, &eeprom_buff[last_word - first_word]); + if (ret_val) + goto out; } /* Device's eeprom is always little-endian, word addressable */ @@ -850,6 +852,7 @@ static int igb_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev, hw->nvm.ops.update(hw); igb_set_fw_version(adapter); +out: kfree(eeprom_buff); return ret_val; }