[PATCH 4.9 076/310] mlxsw: spectrum: Avoid possible NULL pointer dereference

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 11 2018 - 14:55:59 EST


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

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From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit c0e01eac7ada785fdeaea1ae5476ec1cf3b00374 ]

In case we got an FDB notification for a port that doesn't exist we
execute an FDB entry delete to prevent it from re-appearing the next
time we poll for notifications.

If the operation failed we would trigger a NULL pointer dereference as
'mlxsw_sp_port' is NULL.

Fix it by reporting the error using the underlying bus device instead.

Fixes: 12f1501e7511 ("mlxsw: spectrum: remove FDB entry in case we get unknown object notification")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_switchdev.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_switchdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_switchdev.c
@@ -1448,8 +1448,7 @@ do_fdb_op:
err = mlxsw_sp_port_fdb_uc_op(mlxsw_sp, local_port, mac, fid,
adding, true);
if (err) {
- if (net_ratelimit())
- netdev_err(mlxsw_sp_port->dev, "Failed to set FDB entry\n");
+ dev_err_ratelimited(mlxsw_sp->bus_info->dev, "Failed to set FDB entry\n");
return;
}

@@ -1509,8 +1508,7 @@ do_fdb_op:
err = mlxsw_sp_port_fdb_uc_lag_op(mlxsw_sp, lag_id, mac, fid, lag_vid,
adding, true);
if (err) {
- if (net_ratelimit())
- netdev_err(mlxsw_sp_port->dev, "Failed to set FDB entry\n");
+ dev_err_ratelimited(mlxsw_sp->bus_info->dev, "Failed to set FDB entry\n");
return;
}