This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled IB/uverbs: Fix an potential error pointer dereference to the 4.19-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: ib-uverbs-fix-an-potential-error-pointer-dereference.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e81f5b82161d580cb788510fd9374a80d86d30ab Author: Xiang Yang <xiangyang3@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Aug 4 10:25:25 2023 +0800 IB/uverbs: Fix an potential error pointer dereference [ Upstream commit 26b7d1a27167e7adf75b150755e05d2bc123ce55 ] smatch reports the warning below: drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c:110 ib_uverbs_handler_UVERBS_METHOD_COUNTERS_READ() error: 'uattr' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR() The return value of uattr maybe ERR_PTR(-ENOENT), fix this by checking the value of uattr before using it. Fixes: ebb6796bd397 ("IB/uverbs: Add read counters support") Signed-off-by: Xiang Yang <xiangyang3@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230804022525.1916766-1-xiangyang3@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c index a0ffdcf9a51cd..bb3a03cdc9742 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c @@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ static int UVERBS_HANDLER(UVERBS_METHOD_COUNTERS_READ)( return ret; uattr = uverbs_attr_get(attrs, UVERBS_ATTR_READ_COUNTERS_BUFF); + if (IS_ERR(uattr)) + return PTR_ERR(uattr); read_attr.ncounters = uattr->ptr_attr.len / sizeof(u64); read_attr.counters_buff = uverbs_zalloc( attrs, array_size(read_attr.ncounters, sizeof(u64)));