linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: ethernet: rtsn: Fix a null pointer dereference in rtsn

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Message-Id: <20250524075825.3589001-1-haoxiang_li2024@163.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 15:58:25 +0800
From: Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@....com>
To: niklas.soderlund@...natech.se,
	andrew+netdev@...n.ch,
	davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com,
	richardcochran@...il.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@....com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: ethernet: rtsn: Fix a null pointer dereference in rtsn_probe()

Add check for the return value of rcar_gen4_ptp_alloc()
to prevent potential null pointer dereference.

Fixes: b0d3969d2b4d ("net: ethernet: rtsn: Add support for Renesas Ethernet-TSN")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@....com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rtsn.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rtsn.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rtsn.c
index 6b3f7fca8d15..f5df3374d279 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rtsn.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rtsn.c
@@ -1260,6 +1260,10 @@ static int rtsn_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	priv->pdev = pdev;
 	priv->ndev = ndev;
 	priv->ptp_priv = rcar_gen4_ptp_alloc(pdev);
+	if (!priv->ptp_priv) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto error_free;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock_init(&priv->lock);
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv);
-- 
2.25.1