netdev - [PATCH] scsi: qedf: potential dereference of null pointer

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Date:   Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:14:49 +0800
From:   Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
To:     skashyap@...vell.com, jhasan@...vell.com,
        GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...vell.com, jejb@...ux.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, linux@...linux.org.uk
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: qedf: potential dereference of null pointer

The return value of dma_alloc_coherent() needs to be checked.
To avoid use of null pointer in case of the failure of alloc.

Fixes: 61d8658b4a43 ("scsi: qedf: Add QLogic FastLinQ offload FCoE driver framework.")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
---
 drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c b/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c
index b92570a7c309..309e205a8e70 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c
@@ -1415,6 +1415,8 @@ static void qedf_upload_connection(struct qedf_ctx *qedf,
 	 */
 	term_params = dma_alloc_coherent(&qedf->pdev->dev, QEDF_TERM_BUFF_SIZE,
 		&term_params_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!term_params)
+		return;
 
 	QEDF_INFO(&(qedf->dbg_ctx), QEDF_LOG_CONN, "Uploading connection "
 		   "port_id=%06x.\n", fcport->rdata->ids.port_id);
-- 
2.25.1