netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: Discard frames from unused ports

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Date:   Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:04:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     andrew@...n.ch
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: Discard frames from unused ports

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date: Thu,  5 Apr 2018 01:56:44 +0200

> The Marvell switches under some conditions will pass a frame to the
> host with the port being the CPU port. Such frames are invalid, and
> should be dropped. Not dropping them can result in a crash when
> incrementing the receive statistics for an invalid port.
> 
> Reported-by: Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>
> Fixes: 5f6b4e14cada ("net: dsa: User per-cpu 64-bit statistics")
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
 ...
> +	slave_port = &ds->ports[port];
> +
> +	if (slave_port->type != DSA_PORT_TYPE_USER)
> +		return NULL;

Look like we need a Fixes: update and an adjustment to use unlikely()
here based upon Florian's feedback.