netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: fix phy_get_internal

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:53:43 +0000
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Kévin L'hôpital <kevin.lhopital@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Enguerrand de Ribaucourt <enguerrand.de-ribaucourt@...oirfairelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: fix phy_get_internal_delay accessing an empty
 array

On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 09:52:54AM +0100, Kévin L'hôpital wrote:
> The phy_get_internal_delay function could try to access to an empty
> array in the case that the driver is calling phy_get_internal_delay
> without defining delay_values and rx-internal-delay-ps or
> tx-internal-delay-ps is defined to 0 in the device-tree.
> This will lead to "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> virtual address 0". To avoid this kernel oops, the test should be delay
> >= 0. As there is already delay < 0 test just before, the test could
> only be size == 0.
> 
> Fixes: 92252eec913b ("net: phy: Add a helper to return the index for of the internal delay")
> Signed-off-by: Kévin L'hôpital <kevin.lhopital@...oirfairelinux.com>
> Signed-off-by: Enguerrand de Ribaucourt <enguerrand.de-ribaucourt@...oirfairelinux.com>

The sign-offs look wrong to me. They indicate the path that the patch is
taking to be merged into mainline. Who is the author of this patch and
who is passing it along? If it's co-development, then there is a specific
tag for that.

For the actual patch itself:

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Thanks!

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