linux-kernel - [PATCH] e1000: avoid null pointer dereference on invalid stat type

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Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 23:01:58 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] e1000: avoid null pointer dereference on invalid stat type

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Currently if the stat type is invalid then data[i] is being set
either by dereferencing a null pointer p, or it is reading from
an incorrect previous location if we had a valid stat type
previously.  Fix this by nullify pointer p if a stat type is
invalid and only setting data if p is not null.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#113385 ("Explicit null dereferenced")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
index ec8aa4562cc9..2ef6f08b580b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
@@ -1824,11 +1824,12 @@ static void e1000_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *netdev,
 {
 	struct e1000_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	int i;
-	char *p = NULL;
 	const struct e1000_stats *stat = e1000_gstrings_stats;
 
 	e1000_update_stats(adapter);
 	for (i = 0; i < E1000_GLOBAL_STATS_LEN; i++) {
+		char *p;
+
 		switch (stat->type) {
 		case NETDEV_STATS:
 			p = (char *)netdev + stat->stat_offset;
@@ -1837,12 +1838,13 @@ static void e1000_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *netdev,
 			p = (char *)adapter + stat->stat_offset;
 			break;
 		default:
+			p = NULL;
 			WARN_ONCE(1, "Invalid E1000 stat type: %u index %d\n",
 				  stat->type, i);
 			break;
 		}
 
-		if (stat->sizeof_stat == sizeof(u64))
+		if (p && stat->sizeof_stat == sizeof(u64))
 			data[i] = *(u64 *)p;
 		else
 			data[i] = *(u32 *)p;
-- 
2.14.1