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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
	Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rbranco@la.checkpoint.com>,
	Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>, Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [patch 23/28] ehea: fix invalid pointer access
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090514225240.213583899@mini.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090514225413.GA705@kroah.com>

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2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com>

commit 0b2febf38a33d7c40fb7bb4a58c113a1fa33c412 upstream.

This patch fixes an invalid pointer access in case the receive queue
holds no pointer to the next skb when the queue is empty.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
@@ -529,14 +529,17 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *get_skb_by
 	x &= (arr_len - 1);
 
 	pref = skb_array[x];
-	prefetchw(pref);
-	prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+	if (pref) {
+		prefetchw(pref);
+		prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+
+		pref = (skb_array[x]->data);
+		prefetch(pref);
+		prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+		prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE * 2);
+		prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE * 3);
+	}
 
-	pref = (skb_array[x]->data);
-	prefetch(pref);
-	prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
-	prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE * 2);
-	prefetch(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE * 3);
 	skb = skb_array[skb_index];
 	skb_array[skb_index] = NULL;
 	return skb;
@@ -553,12 +556,14 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *get_skb_by
 	x &= (arr_len - 1);
 
 	pref = skb_array[x];
-	prefetchw(pref);
-	prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
-
-	pref = (skb_array[x]->data);
-	prefetchw(pref);
-	prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+	if (pref) {
+		prefetchw(pref);
+		prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+
+		pref = (skb_array[x]->data);
+		prefetchw(pref);
+		prefetchw(pref + EHEA_CACHE_LINE);
+	}
 
 	skb = skb_array[wqe_index];
 	skb_array[wqe_index] = NULL;



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-14 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090514225126.907908936@mini.kroah.org>
2009-05-14 22:54 ` [patch 00/28] 2.6.27.24-stable review Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 01/28] md: fix loading of out-of-date bitmap Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 02/28] md: fix some (more) errors with bitmaps on devices larger than 2TB Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 03/28] md/raid10: dont clear bitmap during recovery if array will still be degraded Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 04/28] md: remove ability to explicit set an inactive array to clean Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 05/28] USB: Gadget: fix UTF conversion in the usbstring library Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 06/28] dup2: Fix return value with oldfd == newfd and invalid fd Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 07/28] i2c-algo-bit: Fix timeout test Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 08/28] i2c-algo-pca: Let PCA9564 recover from unacked data byte (state 0x30) Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 09/28] mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 10/28] fs: fix page_mkwrite error cases in core code and btrfs Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 11/28] mm: close page_mkwrite races Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 12/28] GFS2: Fix page_mkwrite() return code Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 13/28] NFS: Fix the return value in nfs_page_mkwrite() Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 14/28] NFS: Close page_mkwrite() races Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 15/28] cifs: Fix buffer size for tcon->nativeFileSystem field Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 16/28] cifs: Increase size of tmp_buf in cifs_readdir to avoid potential overflows Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 17/28] cifs: Fix incorrect destination buffer size in cifs_strncpy_to_host Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 18/28] cifs: Fix buffer size in cifs_convertUCSpath Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 19/28] cifs: Fix unicode string area word alignment in session setup Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 20/28] epoll: fix size check in epoll_create() Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 21/28] nfsd4: check for negative dentry before use in nfsv4 readdir Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 22/28] NFS: Fix the notifications when renaming onto an existing file Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 24/28] powerpc/5200: Dont specify IRQF_SHARED in PSC UART driver Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 25/28] splice: split up __splice_from_pipe() Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 26/28] splice: remove i_mutex locking in splice_from_pipe() Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 27/28] splice: fix i_mutex locking in generic_splice_write() Greg KH
2009-05-14 22:51   ` [patch 28/28] ocfs2: fix i_mutex locking in ocfs2_splice_to_file() Greg KH

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