[PATCH 6.10 770/809] net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling

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6.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 16f3a28cf5f876a7f3550d8f4c870a7b41bcfaef ]

Move the freeing of the dummy net_device from mtk_free_dev() to
mtk_remove().

Previously, if alloc_netdev_dummy() failed in mtk_probe(),
eth->dummy_dev would be NULL. The error path would then call
mtk_free_dev(), which in turn called free_netdev() assuming dummy_dev
was allocated (but it was not), potentially causing a NULL pointer
dereference.

By moving free_netdev() to mtk_remove(), we ensure it's only called when
mtk_probe() has succeeded and dummy_dev is fully allocated. This
addresses a potential NULL pointer dereference detected by Smatch[1].

Fixes: b209bd6d0bff ("net: mediatek: mtk_eth_sock: allocate dummy net_device dynamically")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4160f4e0-cbef-4a22-8b5d-42c4d399e1f7@stanley.mountain/ [1]
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240724080524.2734499-1-leitao@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
index c84ce54a84a00..c11bb0f0b8c47 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
@@ -4198,8 +4198,6 @@ static int mtk_free_dev(struct mtk_eth *eth)
 		metadata_dst_free(eth->dsa_meta[i]);
 	}
 
-	free_netdev(eth->dummy_dev);
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -5048,6 +5046,7 @@ static void mtk_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	netif_napi_del(&eth->tx_napi);
 	netif_napi_del(&eth->rx_napi);
 	mtk_cleanup(eth);
+	free_netdev(eth->dummy_dev);
 	mtk_mdio_cleanup(eth);
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0







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