[PATCH 5.19 120/207] sfc: fix null pointer dereference in efx_hard_start_xmit

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-09-26T11:48:28Z

From: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 0a242eb2913a4aa3d6fbdb86559f27628e9466f3 ]

Trying to get the channel from the tx_queue variable here is wrong
because we can only be here if tx_queue is NULL, so we shouldn't
dereference it. As the above comment in the code says, this is very
unlikely to happen, but it's wrong anyway so let's fix it.

I hit this issue because of a different bug that caused tx_queue to be
NULL. If that happens, this is the error message that we get here:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
[...]
RIP: 0010:efx_hard_start_xmit+0x153/0x170 [sfc]

Fixes: 12804793b17c ("sfc: decouple TXQ type from label")
Reported-by: Tianhao Zhao <tizhao@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220914111135.21038-1-ihuguet@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c
index 138bca611341..80ed7f760bd3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ netdev_tx_t efx_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
* previous packets out.
*/
if (!netdev_xmit_more())
- efx_tx_send_pending(tx_queue->channel);
+ efx_tx_send_pending(efx_get_tx_channel(efx, index));
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}

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2.35.1