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[net-next] net/mlxfw: fix a NULL dereference

Message ID 20170614104152.GM29394@elgon.mountain
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Dan Carpenter June 14, 2017, 10:41 a.m. UTC 
If we hit this error path we end up returning ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL.
The caller is not expecting that so it results in a NULL dereference.

Fixes: 410ed13cae39 ("Add the mlxfw module for Mellanox firmware flash process")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Comments

Yotam Gigi June 14, 2017, 11:03 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 06/14/2017 01:41 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If we hit this error path we end up returning ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL.
> The caller is not expecting that so it results in a NULL dereference.
>
> Fixes: 410ed13cae39 ("Add the mlxfw module for Mellanox firmware flash process")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c
> index 628150d28061..993cb5ba934e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c
> @@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ struct mlxfw_mfa2_component *
>  	if (memcmp(comp_data->buff, mlxfw_mfa2_comp_magic,
>  		   mlxfw_mfa2_comp_magic_len) != 0) {
>  		pr_err("Component has wrong magic\n");
> +		err = -EINVAL;
>  		goto err_out;
>  	}
>  


Acked-by: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com>
David Miller June 14, 2017, 7:33 p.m. UTC | #2 
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:41:52 +0300

> If we hit this error path we end up returning ERR_PTR(0) which is NULL.
> The caller is not expecting that so it results in a NULL dereference.
> 
> Fixes: 410ed13cae39 ("Add the mlxfw module for Mellanox firmware flash process")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c
index 628150d28061..993cb5ba934e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c
@@ -594,6 +594,7 @@  struct mlxfw_mfa2_component *
 	if (memcmp(comp_data->buff, mlxfw_mfa2_comp_magic,
 		   mlxfw_mfa2_comp_magic_len) != 0) {
 		pr_err("Component has wrong magic\n");
+		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto err_out;
 	}