linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v4.15..v4.19] net: dsa: Fix NPD checking for br_vlan

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Date:   Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:54:54 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, frank-w@...lic-files.de, andrew@...n.ch,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4.15..v4.19] net: dsa: Fix NPD checking for
 br_vlan_enabled()

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:30:11 -0800

> It is possible for the DSA slave network device not to be part of a
> bridge, yet have an upper device like a VLAN device be part of a bridge.
> When that VLAN device is enslaved, since it does not define any
> switchdev_ops, we will recurse down to the lower/physical port device,
> call switchdev_port_obj_add() with a VLAN, and here we will check
> br_vlan_enabled() on a NULL dp->bridge_dev, thus causing a NULL pointer
> de-reference.
> 
> This is no longer a problem upstream after commit d17d9f5e5143
> ("switchdev: Replace port obj add/del SDO with a notification").
> 
> Fixes: 2ea7a679ca2a ("net: dsa: Don't add vlans when vlan filtering is disabled")
> Reported-by: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@...lic-files.de>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> ---
> David,
> 
> This affects v4.15..v4.19, but not v5.0-rc1 can you still queue this up
> for -stable? Thanks!

Queued up.