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authorSergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>2016-03-08 01:36:28 +0300
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2016-07-10 23:07:02 -0400
commitc5e6283a4379eaae2d7fe596fc29ea02a14ac818 (patch)
tree84c6f76d4af0cda75b6c57ab4adb33e3806f7c64 /drivers
parent795f5dc952b62c0a4afe5d8872f6f16372243293 (diff)
sh_eth: fix NULL pointer dereference in sh_eth_ring_format()
[ Upstream commit c1b7fca65070bfadca94dd53a4e6b71cd4f69715 ] In a low memory situation, if netdev_alloc_skb() fails on a first RX ring loop iteration in sh_eth_ring_format(), 'rxdesc' is still NULL. Avoid kernel oops by adding the 'rxdesc' check after the loop. Reported-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
index 13463c4acc86..51eff9fefb4e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
@@ -1173,7 +1173,8 @@ static void sh_eth_ring_format(struct net_device *ndev)
mdp->dirty_rx = (u32) (i - mdp->num_rx_ring);
/* Mark the last entry as wrapping the ring. */
- rxdesc->status |= cpu_to_edmac(mdp, RD_RDEL);
+ if (rxdesc)
+ rxdesc->status |= cpu_to_edmac(mdp, RD_RDEL);
memset(mdp->tx_ring, 0, tx_ringsize);