netdev - Re: [PATCH] be2net: bug fix on returning an invalid nic descriptor

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Date:	Thu, 23 May 2013 18:57:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	sathya.perla@...lex.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be2net: bug fix on returning an invalid nic descriptor

From: Wei Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:58:22 +0800

> In function be_get_nic_desc(), it will go through the descriptor array
> returned from f/w. By comparing the desc_type field, it determines whether
> there is a nic descriptor in the array or not. In the case of no nic
> descriptor, this function should return NULL.
> 
> The code may return an invalide descriptor, when there is no nic descriptor
> in the array and the desc_count is less than MAX_RESOURCE_DESC. In this case,
> even there is no nic descriptor, it will still return the lase descriptor
> since the i doesn't equal to MAX_RESOURCE_DESC.
> 
> This patch fix this issue by returning the descriptor when find it and return
> NULL for other cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.
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