linux-kernel - [net PATCH] net: dsa: qca8k: fix NULL pointer dereference for of_device_get_match

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Message-Id: <20220904215319.13070-1-ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun,  4 Sep 2022 23:53:19 +0200
From:   Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>,
        "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [net PATCH] net: dsa: qca8k: fix NULL pointer dereference for of_device_get_match_data

of_device_get_match_data is called on priv->dev before priv->dev is
actually set. Move of_device_get_match_data after priv->dev is correctly
set to fix this kernel panic.

Fixes: 3bb0844e7bcd ("net: dsa: qca8k: cache match data to speed up access")
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c
index 1d3e7782a71f..c181346388a4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/qca/qca8k-8xxx.c
@@ -1889,9 +1889,9 @@ qca8k_sw_probe(struct mdio_device *mdiodev)
 	if (!priv)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	priv->info = of_device_get_match_data(priv->dev);
 	priv->bus = mdiodev->bus;
 	priv->dev = &mdiodev->dev;
+	priv->info = of_device_get_match_data(priv->dev);
 
 	priv->reset_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(priv->dev, "reset",
 						   GPIOD_ASIS);
-- 
2.37.2