5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Xiang Yang <xiangyang3@xxxxxxxxxx> [ 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> --- drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c index 9f013304e6778..35e41c5ca1bb1 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_counters.c @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ 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))); -- 2.40.1