[PATCH net-next] ibmvnic: Potential NULL dereference in clean_one_tx_pool()

Thomas Falcon tlfalcon at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Mar 24 02:06:22 AEDT 2018


On 03/23/2018 06:36 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There is an && vs || typo here, which potentially leads to a NULL
> dereference.

Thanks for catching that!

>
> Fixes: e9e1e97884b7 ("ibmvnic: Update TX pool cleaning routine")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
> index 5632c030811b..0389a7a52152 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
> @@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ static void clean_one_tx_pool(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
>  	u64 tx_entries;
>  	int i;
>
> -	if (!tx_pool && !tx_pool->tx_buff)
> +	if (!tx_pool || !tx_pool->tx_buff)
>  		return;
>
>  	tx_entries = tx_pool->num_buffers;
>



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