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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch net] mlxsw: spectrum: Avoid possible NULL pointer
 dereference
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 11:27:55 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 13:03:52 +0200

> From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> 
> In case we got an FDB notification for a port that doesn't exist we
> execute an FDB entry delete to prevent it from re-appearing the next
> time we poll for notifications.
> 
> If the operation failed we would trigger a NULL pointer dereference as
> 'mlxsw_sp_port' is NULL.
> 
> Fix it by reporting the error using the underlying bus device instead.
> 
> Fixes: 12f1501e7511 ("mlxsw: spectrum: remove FDB entry in case we get unknown object notification")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>

Applied, thank you.