linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v2] lan966x: Fix crash when adding interface under a lag

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 20:50:50 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] lan966x: Fix crash when adding interface under a
 lag

On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 01:30:54PM +0100, Horatiu Vultur wrote:
> There is a crash when adding one of the lan966x interfaces under a lag
> interface. The issue can be reproduced like this:
> ip link add name bond0 type bond miimon 100 mode balance-xor
> ip link set dev eth0 master bond0
> 
> The reason is because when adding a interface under the lag it would go
> through all the ports and try to figure out which other ports are under
> that lag interface. And the issue is that lan966x can have ports that are
> NULL pointer as they are not probed. So then iterating over these ports
> it would just crash as they are NULL pointers.
> The fix consists in actually checking for NULL pointers before accessing
> something from the ports. Like we do in other places.
> 
> Fixes: cabc9d49333d ("net: lan966x: Add lag support for lan966x")
> Signed-off-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>