This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: dsa: qca8k: Add check for skb_copy
to the 6.1-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-dsa-qca8k-add-check-for-skb_copy.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 0b62a31f05b0a2b6cac70f3ba28bc534cc13aef7
Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jul 10 09:39:07 2023 +0800
net: dsa: qca8k: Add check for skb_copy
[ Upstream commit 87355b7c3da9bfd81935caba0ab763355147f7b0 ]
Add check for the return value of skb_copy in order to avoid NULL pointer
dereference.
Fixes: 2cd548566384 ("net: dsa: qca8k: add support for phy read/write with mgmt Ethernet")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c
index 7a6166a0c9bcc..b3f7988668996 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c
@@ -469,6 +469,9 @@ qca8k_phy_eth_busy_wait(struct qca8k_mgmt_eth_data *mgmt_eth_data,
bool ack;
int ret;
+ if (!skb)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
reinit_completion(&mgmt_eth_data->rw_done);
/* Increment seq_num and set it in the copy pkt */
