From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk,
linux@armlinux.org.uk, andrew@lunn.ch, hkallweit1@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phylink: fix NULL pl->pcs dereference during phylink_pcs_poll_start
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:30:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <165661741418.1981.16436724422790201997.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220629193358.4007923-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 22:33:58 +0300 you wrote:
> The current link mode of the phylink instance may not require an
> attached PCS. However, phylink_major_config() unconditionally
> dereferences this potentially NULL pointer when restarting the link poll
> timer, which will panic the kernel.
>
> Fix the problem by checking whether a PCS exists in phylink_pcs_poll_start(),
> otherwise do nothing. The code prior to the blamed patch also only
> looked at pcs->poll within an "if (pcs)" block.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net-next] net: phylink: fix NULL pl->pcs dereference during phylink_pcs_poll_start
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/b7d78b46d5e8
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-29 19:33 [PATCH net-next] net: phylink: fix NULL pl->pcs dereference during phylink_pcs_poll_start Vladimir Oltean
2022-06-29 19:42 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-06-29 20:14 ` Gerhard Engleder
2022-06-30 11:41 ` Michael Walle
2022-06-30 13:46 ` Nicolas Ferre
2022-06-30 14:50 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-06-30 19:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf [this message]
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