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

mlxsw: spectrum: Avoid possible NULL pointer dereference

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: mlxsw-spectrum-avoid-possible-null-pointer-dereference.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018

From: Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 13:03:52 +0200 Subject: mlxsw: spectrum: Avoid possible NULL pointer dereference

From: Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com

[ Upstream commit c0e01eac7ada785fdeaea1ae5476ec1cf3b00374 ]

In case we got an FDB notification for a port that doesn't exist we execute an FDB entry delete to prevent it from re-appearing the next time we poll for notifications.

If the operation failed we would trigger a NULL pointer dereference as 'mlxsw_sp_port' is NULL.

Fix it by reporting the error using the underlying bus device instead.

Fixes: 12f1501e7511 ("mlxsw: spectrum: remove FDB entry in case we get unknown object notification") Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko jiri@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_switchdev.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_switchdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_switchdev.c @@ -1448,8 +1448,7 @@ do_fdb_op: err = mlxsw_sp_port_fdb_uc_op(mlxsw_sp, local_port, mac, fid, adding, true); if (err) { - if (net_ratelimit()) - netdev_err(mlxsw_sp_port->dev, "Failed to set FDB entry\n"); + dev_err_ratelimited(mlxsw_sp->bus_info->dev, "Failed to set FDB entry\n"); return; }

@@ -1509,8 +1508,7 @@ do_fdb_op: err = mlxsw_sp_port_fdb_uc_lag_op(mlxsw_sp, lag_id, mac, fid, lag_vid, adding, true); if (err) { - if (net_ratelimit()) - netdev_err(mlxsw_sp_port->dev, "Failed to set FDB entry\n"); + dev_err_ratelimited(mlxsw_sp->bus_info->dev, "Failed to set FDB entry\n"); return; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from idosch@mellanox.com are

queue-4.9/mlxsw-spectrum-avoid-possible-null-pointer-dereference.patch