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

qlcnic: Add null check after calling netdev_alloc_skb

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Tom Seewald tseewald@gmail.com Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 13:56:52 +0200 Subject: qlcnic: Add null check after calling netdev_alloc_skb

The function qlcnic_dl_lb_test() currently calls netdev_alloc_skb() without checking afterwards that the allocation succeeded. Fix this by checking if the skb is NULL and returning an error in such a case. Breaking out of the loop if the skb is NULL is not correct as no error would be reported to the caller and no message would be printed for the user.

Cc: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Seewald tseewald@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-26-gregkh@linuxfoundation.o... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c index 985cf8cb2ec0..d8f0863b3934 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c @@ -1047,6 +1047,8 @@ int qlcnic_do_lb_test(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter, u8 mode)

for (i = 0; i < QLCNIC_NUM_ILB_PKT; i++) { skb = netdev_alloc_skb(adapter->netdev, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE); + if (!skb) + goto error; qlcnic_create_loopback_buff(skb->data, adapter->mac_addr); skb_put(skb, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE); adapter->ahw->diag_cnt = 0; @@ -1070,6 +1072,7 @@ int qlcnic_do_lb_test(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter, u8 mode) cnt++; } if (cnt != i) { +error: dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev, "LB Test: failed, TX[%d], RX[%d]\n", i, cnt); if (mode != QLCNIC_ILB_MODE)