netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 3/9] ibmvnic: avoid memset null scrq msgs

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Date:   Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:52:40 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Dany Madden <drt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sukadev@...ux.ibm.com, ljp@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 3/9] ibmvnic: avoid memset null scrq msgs

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:57:51 -0500 Dany Madden wrote:
> scrq->msgs could be NULL during device reset, causing Linux to crash.
> So, check before memset scrq->msgs.
> 
> Fixes: c8b2ad0a4a901 ("ibmvnic: Sanitize entire SCRQ buffer on reset")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dany Madden <drt@...ux.ibm.com>

Thanks for the Fixes tags! Please remove the empty lines between the
Fixes tags and sign-offs, and make sure the Fixes lines are not wrapped
(e.g. in patch 9).

> Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <ljp@...ux.ibm.com>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
> index d5a927bb4954..e84255c2fc72 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
> @@ -2844,16 +2844,26 @@ static int reset_one_sub_crq_queue(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
>  				   struct ibmvnic_sub_crq_queue *scrq)
>  {
>  	int rc;
> +	if (!scrq) {

Looks like a missing new line between variable declaration and code.

Not sure why checkpatch doesn't catch this.