Re: [PATCH net] ice: Fix NULL pointer access, if PF doesn't support SRIOV_LAG

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:16:51 +0200
Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com> wrote:

> On 8/26/24 12:17, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:41:19 +0200
> > Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
> >   
> >> Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:58:30AM CEST, tbogendoerfer@suse.de wrote:  
> >>> For PFs, which don't support SRIOV_LAG, there is no pf->lag struct
> >>> allocated. So before accessing pf->lag a NULL pointer check is needed.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>  
> >>
> >> You need to add a "fixes" tag blaming the commit that introduced the
> >> bug.  
> 
> Would be also good to CC the author.

sure, I'm using get_maintainer for building address line and looks
like it only adds the author, if there is a Fixes tag, which IMHO
makes more sense than mailing all possible authors of file (in this
case it would work, but there are other files).

> > Fixes: 1e0f9881ef79 ("ice: Flesh out implementation of support for
> > SRIOV on bonded interface")  
> 
> the bug was introduced later, the tag should be:
> Fixes: ec5a6c5f79ed ("ice: process events created by lag netdev event 
> handler")

I'd like to disagree, ec5a6c5f79ed adds an empty ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes(),
which will do no harm if pf->lag is NULL. Commit 1e0f9881ef79 introduces
the access to pf->lag without checking for NULL.
> 
> The mentioned commit extracted code into ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes(),
> and there is just one call to this function by now, just after
> releasing lag_mutex, so would be good to change the semantics of
> ice_lag_move_new_vf_nodes() to "only for lag-enabled flows, with
> lag_mutex held", and fix the call to it to reflect that.

I could do that for sure, but IMHO this is about fixing a bug,
which crashes the kernel. Making the code better should be done
after fixing.

Thomas.

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