Re: [PATCH] net/ncsi: Fix NULL pointer derefence if CIS arrives before SP

Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-17T22:43:33Z

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:05:24 -0600 Eddie James wrote:
> I am able to reproduce the panic at will, and unfortunately your patch
> does not prevent the issue.
>
> However I suspect this issue may be unique to my set up, so my patch may
> not be necessary. I found that I had some user space issues. Fixing
> userspace prevented this issue.

The kernel shouldn't crash even if user space is buggy..
Maybe we can apply a simplified patch to return an error if !np?