This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled liquidio: Adjust a NULL pointer handling path in lio_vf_rep_copy_packet 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: liquidio-adjust-a-null-pointer-handling-path-in-lio_.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 e1e7a9367469b8a81d501fbf5e1673886ccbca3a Author: Aleksandr Mishin <amishin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jun 5 13:11:35 2024 +0300 liquidio: Adjust a NULL pointer handling path in lio_vf_rep_copy_packet [ Upstream commit c44711b78608c98a3e6b49ce91678cd0917d5349 ] In lio_vf_rep_copy_packet() pg_info->page is compared to a NULL value, but then it is unconditionally passed to skb_add_rx_frag() which looks strange and could lead to null pointer dereference. lio_vf_rep_copy_packet() call trace looks like: octeon_droq_process_packets octeon_droq_fast_process_packets octeon_droq_dispatch_pkt octeon_create_recv_info ...search in the dispatch_list... ->disp_fn(rdisp->rinfo, ...) lio_vf_rep_pkt_recv(struct octeon_recv_info *recv_info, ...) In this path there is no code which sets pg_info->page to NULL. So this check looks unneeded and doesn't solve potential problem. But I guess the author had reason to add a check and I have no such card and can't do real test. In addition, the code in the function liquidio_push_packet() in liquidio/lio_core.c does exactly the same. Based on this, I consider the most acceptable compromise solution to adjust this issue by moving skb_add_rx_frag() into conditional scope. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Fixes: 1f233f327913 ("liquidio: switchdev support for LiquidIO NIC") Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Mishin <amishin@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_rep.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_rep.c index 600de587d7a98..e70b9ccca380e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_rep.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_rep.c @@ -272,13 +272,12 @@ lio_vf_rep_copy_packet(struct octeon_device *oct, pg_info->page_offset; memcpy(skb->data, va, MIN_SKB_SIZE); skb_put(skb, MIN_SKB_SIZE); + skb_add_rx_frag(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags, + pg_info->page, + pg_info->page_offset + MIN_SKB_SIZE, + len - MIN_SKB_SIZE, + LIO_RXBUFFER_SZ); } - - skb_add_rx_frag(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags, - pg_info->page, - pg_info->page_offset + MIN_SKB_SIZE, - len - MIN_SKB_SIZE, - LIO_RXBUFFER_SZ); } else { struct octeon_skb_page_info *pg_info = ((struct octeon_skb_page_info *)(skb->cb));