3.8.13.21 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Edward Cree <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 8f355e5cee63c2c0c145d8206c4245d0189f47ff ] If we receive a PTP event from the NIC when we haven't set up PTP state in the driver, we attempt to read through a NULL pointer efx->ptp_data, triggering a panic. Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <[email protected]> Acked-by: Shradha Shah <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c index 3f93624..53fd765 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c @@ -1311,6 +1311,13 @@ void efx_ptp_event(struct efx_nic *efx, efx_qword_t *ev) struct efx_ptp_data *ptp = efx->ptp_data; int code = EFX_QWORD_FIELD(*ev, MCDI_EVENT_CODE); + if (!ptp) { + if (net_ratelimit()) + netif_warn(efx, drv, efx->net_dev, + "Received PTP event but PTP not set up\n"); + return; + } + if (!ptp->enabled) return; -- 1.8.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

