This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bnx2x: prevent crash when accessing PTP with interface down to the 4.9-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: bnx2x-prevent-crash-when-accessing-ptp-with-interface-down.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017 From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 17:08:28 +0100 Subject: bnx2x: prevent crash when accessing PTP with interface down From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 466e8bf10ac104d96e1ea813e8126e11cb72ea20 ] It is possible to crash the kernel by accessing a PTP device while its associated bnx2x interface is down. Before the interface is brought up, the timecounter is not initialized, so accessing it results in NULL dereference. Fix it by checking if the interface is up. Use -ENETDOWN as the error code when the interface is down. -EFAULT in bnx2x_ptp_adjfreq() did not seem right. Tested using phc_ctl get/set/adj/freq commands. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c @@ -13735,7 +13735,7 @@ static int bnx2x_ptp_adjfreq(struct ptp_ if (!netif_running(bp->dev)) { DP(BNX2X_MSG_PTP, "PTP adjfreq called while the interface is down\n"); - return -EFAULT; + return -ENETDOWN; } if (ppb < 0) { @@ -13794,6 +13794,12 @@ static int bnx2x_ptp_adjtime(struct ptp_ { struct bnx2x *bp = container_of(ptp, struct bnx2x, ptp_clock_info); + if (!netif_running(bp->dev)) { + DP(BNX2X_MSG_PTP, + "PTP adjtime called while the interface is down\n"); + return -ENETDOWN; + } + DP(BNX2X_MSG_PTP, "PTP adjtime called, delta = %llx\n", delta); timecounter_adjtime(&bp->timecounter, delta); @@ -13806,6 +13812,12 @@ static int bnx2x_ptp_gettime(struct ptp_ struct bnx2x *bp = container_of(ptp, struct bnx2x, ptp_clock_info); u64 ns; + if (!netif_running(bp->dev)) { + DP(BNX2X_MSG_PTP, + "PTP gettime called while the interface is down\n"); + return -ENETDOWN; + } + ns = timecounter_read(&bp->timecounter); DP(BNX2X_MSG_PTP, "PTP gettime called, ns = %llu\n", ns); @@ -13821,6 +13833,12 @@ static int bnx2x_ptp_settime(struct ptp_ struct bnx2x *bp = container_of(ptp, struct bnx2x, ptp_clock_info); u64 ns; + if (!netif_running(bp->dev)) { + DP(BNX2X_MSG_PTP, + "PTP settime called while the interface is down\n"); + return -ENETDOWN; + } + ns = timespec64_to_ns(ts); DP(BNX2X_MSG_PTP, "PTP settime called, ns = %llu\n", ns); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/bnx2x-fix-detection-of-vlan-filtering-feature-for-vf.patch queue-4.9/bnx2x-fix-possible-overrun-of-vfpf-multicast-addresses-array.patch queue-4.9/bnx2x-do-not-rollback-vf-mac-vlan-filters-we-did-not-configure.patch queue-4.9/bnx2x-prevent-crash-when-accessing-ptp-with-interface-down.patch