This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390/qeth: avoid null pointer dereference on OSN
to the 3.18-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:
s390-qeth-avoid-null-pointer-dereference-on-osn.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Fri Jun 2 12:04:25 JST 2017
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 19:07:53 +0200
Subject: s390/qeth: avoid null pointer dereference on OSN
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 25e2c341e7818a394da9abc403716278ee646014 ]
Access card->dev only after checking whether's its valid.
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
@@ -970,7 +970,6 @@ static int qeth_l2_setup_netdev(struct q
case QETH_CARD_TYPE_OSN:
card->dev = alloc_netdev(0, "osn%d", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN,
ether_setup);
- card->dev->flags |= IFF_NOARP;
break;
default:
card->dev = alloc_etherdev(0);
@@ -983,9 +982,12 @@ static int qeth_l2_setup_netdev(struct q
card->dev->watchdog_timeo = QETH_TX_TIMEOUT;
card->dev->mtu = card->info.initial_mtu;
card->dev->netdev_ops = &qeth_l2_netdev_ops;
- card->dev->ethtool_ops =
- (card->info.type != QETH_CARD_TYPE_OSN) ?
- &qeth_l2_ethtool_ops : &qeth_l2_osn_ops;
+ if (card->info.type == QETH_CARD_TYPE_OSN) {
+ card->dev->ethtool_ops = &qeth_l2_osn_ops;
+ card->dev->flags |= IFF_NOARP;
+ } else {
+ card->dev->ethtool_ops = &qeth_l2_ethtool_ops;
+ }
card->dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER;
card->info.broadcast_capable = 1;
qeth_l2_request_initial_mac(card);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/s390-qeth-avoid-null-pointer-dereference-on-osn.patch
queue-3.18/s390-qeth-unbreak-osm-and-osn-support.patch
queue-3.18/s390-qeth-handle-sysfs-error-during-initialization.patch