netdev - Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [net PATCH] ixgbe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ethtool loopback test

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Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2021 08:29:55 +0100
From:   Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [net PATCH] ixgbe: Fix NULL pointer dereference
 in ethtool loopback test

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 21:42, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>
>
> The ixgbe driver currently generates a NULL pointer dereference when
> performing the ethtool loopback test. This is due to the fact that there
> isn't a q_vector associated with the test ring when it is setup as
> interrupts are not normally added to the test rings.
>
> To address this I have added code that will check for a q_vector before
> returning a napi_id value. If a q_vector is not present it will return a
> value of 0.
>
> Fixes: b02e5a0ebb17 ("xsk: Propagate napi_id to XDP socket Rx path")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>

Thanks Alex!

Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...el.com>

I'll look into if this applies to the other Intel drivers as well.


Björn
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