Patch "i40e: avoid null pointer dereference" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    i40e: avoid null pointer dereference

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     i40e-avoid-null-pointer-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From cd956722167ba4fdba9c1ce3eed251b04ea2e10f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 22:41:33 +0200
Subject: i40e: avoid null pointer dereference

From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>

commit cd956722167ba4fdba9c1ce3eed251b04ea2e10f upstream.

In function i40e_debug_aq parameter desc is assumed to be
possibly NULL. Do not dereference it before checking the
value.

Fixes: f905dd62be88 ("i40e/i40evf: add max buf len to aq debug print helper")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_common.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_common.c
@@ -302,13 +302,15 @@ void i40e_debug_aq(struct i40e_hw *hw, e
 		   void *buffer, u16 buf_len)
 {
 	struct i40e_aq_desc *aq_desc = (struct i40e_aq_desc *)desc;
-	u16 len = le16_to_cpu(aq_desc->datalen);
+	u16 len;
 	u8 *buf = (u8 *)buffer;
 	u16 i = 0;
 
 	if ((!(mask & hw->debug_mask)) || (desc == NULL))
 		return;
 
+	len = le16_to_cpu(aq_desc->datalen);
+
 	i40e_debug(hw, mask,
 		   "AQ CMD: opcode 0x%04X, flags 0x%04X, datalen 0x%04X, retval 0x%04X\n",
 		   le16_to_cpu(aq_desc->opcode),


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xypron.glpk@gmx.de are

queue-4.4/i40e-avoid-null-pointer-dereference.patch