This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ixgbe: fix crash with empty VF macvlan list
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:
ixgbe-fix-crash-with-empty-vf-macvlan-list.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 c7d806c67e48d437031f8c1516d213d488e6888f
Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Oct 6 15:53:09 2023 +0300
ixgbe: fix crash with empty VF macvlan list
[ Upstream commit 7b5add9af567c44e12196107f0fe106e194034fd ]
The adapter->vf_mvs.l list needs to be initialized even if the list is
empty. Otherwise it will lead to crashes.
Fixes: a1cbb15c1397 ("ixgbe: Add macvlan support for VF")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZSADNdIw8zFx1xw2@kadam
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
index f36bb9e7d8d59..3698c45837d82 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ static inline void ixgbe_alloc_vf_macvlans(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
struct vf_macvlans *mv_list;
int num_vf_macvlans, i;
+ /* Initialize list of VF macvlans */
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&adapter->vf_mvs.l);
+
num_vf_macvlans = hw->mac.num_rar_entries -
(IXGBE_MAX_PF_MACVLANS + 1 + num_vfs);
if (!num_vf_macvlans)
@@ -61,8 +64,6 @@ static inline void ixgbe_alloc_vf_macvlans(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
mv_list = kcalloc(num_vf_macvlans, sizeof(struct vf_macvlans),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (mv_list) {
- /* Initialize list of VF macvlans */
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&adapter->vf_mvs.l);
for (i = 0; i < num_vf_macvlans; i++) {
mv_list[i].vf = -1;
mv_list[i].free = true;
