netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: nixge: Fix error path for obtaining mac address

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Date:   Mon, 07 May 2018 23:30:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mdf@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        alex.williams@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: nixge: Fix error path for obtaining mac
 address

From: Moritz Fischer <mdf@...nel.org>
Date: Fri,  4 May 2018 10:18:33 -0700

> Fix issue where nixge_get_nvmem_address() returns a non-NULL
> return value on a failed nvmem_cell_get() that causes an invalid
> access when error value encoded in pointer is dereferenced.
> 
> Furthermore ensure that buffer allocated by nvmem_cell_read()
> actually gets kfreed() if the function succeeds.
> 
> Fixes commit 492caffa8a1a ("net: ethernet: nixge: Add support for
> National Instruments XGE netdev")
> Reported-by: Alex Williams <alex.williams@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@...nel.org>

Applied.