From: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com>
To: leon@kernel.org, siva.kallam@broadcom.com,
vikas.gupta@broadcom.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com, alok.a.tiwarilinux@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH net] bnge: Fix NULL pointer dereference in aux device release
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:22:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260731192301.1427645-1-alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com> (raw)
If allocation of auxr_dev fails during auxiliary device setup, the error
path calls auxiliary_device_uninit(), which eventually invokes
bnge_aux_dev_release().
The release callback unconditionally dereferences aux_priv->auxr_dev->pdev
to retrieve the parent bnge_dev. Since auxr_dev has not yet been allocated
on this failure path, the dereference results in a NULL pointer exception
Retrieve the parent bnge_dev from the auxiliary device's parent instead of
auxr_dev, and free auxr_dev only when it was successfully allocated. This
allows the release callback to correctly clean up partially initialized
auxiliary devices.
Fixes: 8ac050ec3b1c ("bng_en: Add RoCE aux device support")
Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c
index 67e93e17d4d9..0955b488b6fe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c
@@ -141,12 +141,15 @@ static void bnge_aux_dev_release(struct device *dev)
{
struct bnge_auxr_priv *aux_priv =
container_of(dev, struct bnge_auxr_priv, aux_dev.dev);
- struct bnge_dev *bd = pci_get_drvdata(aux_priv->auxr_dev->pdev);
+ struct bnge_auxr_dev *auxr_dev = aux_priv->auxr_dev;
+ struct bnge_dev *bd = pci_get_drvdata(to_pci_dev(dev->parent));
ida_free(&bnge_aux_dev_ids, aux_priv->id);
- kfree(aux_priv->auxr_dev->auxr_info);
+ if (auxr_dev) {
+ kfree(auxr_dev->auxr_info);
+ kfree(auxr_dev);
+ }
bd->auxr_dev = NULL;
- kfree(aux_priv->auxr_dev);
kfree(aux_priv);
bd->aux_priv = NULL;
}
--
2.52.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-31 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-31 19:22 Alok Tiwari [this message]
2026-08-03 16:46 ` [PATCH net] bnge: Fix NULL pointer dereference in aux device release Bhargava Chenna Marreddy
2026-08-04 1:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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