This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    igb: Fix Null-pointer dereference in igb_reset_q_vector

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     igb-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-igb_reset_q_vector.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From cb06d102327eadcd1bdc480bfd9f8876251d1007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Paasch <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 03:48:19 -0700
Subject: igb: Fix Null-pointer dereference in igb_reset_q_vector

From: Christoph Paasch <[email protected]>

commit cb06d102327eadcd1bdc480bfd9f8876251d1007 upstream.

When igb_set_interrupt_capability() calls
igb_reset_interrupt_capability() (e.g., because CONFIG_PCI_MSI is unset),
num_q_vectors has been set but no vector has yet been allocated.

igb_reset_interrupt_capability() will then call igb_reset_q_vector,
which assumes that the vector is allocated. As this is not the case, we
are accessing a NULL-pointer.

This patch fixes it by checking that q_vector is indeed different from
NULL.

Fixes: 02ef6e1d0b0023 (igb: Fix queue allocation method to accommodate changing 
during runtime)
Cc: Carolyn Wyborny <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -1014,6 +1014,12 @@ static void igb_reset_q_vector(struct ig
 {
        struct igb_q_vector *q_vector = adapter->q_vector[v_idx];
 
+       /* Coming from igb_set_interrupt_capability, the vectors are not yet
+        * allocated. So, q_vector is NULL so we should stop here.
+        */
+       if (!q_vector)
+               return;
+
        if (q_vector->tx.ring)
                adapter->tx_ring[q_vector->tx.ring->queue_index] = NULL;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.14/igb-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-igb_reset_q_vector.patch
queue-3.14/igb-unset-igb_flag_has_msix-flag-when-falling-back-to-msi-only.patch
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