From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
To: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: don't assign an error value to tag_ops
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:52:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210322205244.qnbyigvyjsniktzz@skbuf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210322202650.45776-1-george.mccollister@gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:26:50PM -0500, George McCollister wrote:
> Use a temporary variable to hold the return value from
> dsa_tag_driver_get() instead of assigning it to dst->tag_ops. Leaving
> an error value in dst->tag_ops can result in deferencing an invalid
> pointer when a deferred switch configuration happens later.
>
> Fixes: 357f203bb3b5 ("net: dsa: keep a copy of the tagging protocol in the DSA switch tree")
>
> Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Just FYI, new lines aren't typically added between the various tags.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-22 20:26 [PATCH net] net: dsa: don't assign an error value to tag_ops George McCollister
2021-03-22 20:46 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-03-22 20:51 ` George McCollister
2021-03-22 20:52 ` Vladimir Oltean [this message]
2021-03-22 23:22 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-23 0:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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