netdev - Re: [PATCH net v4] net: b44: set pause params only when interface is up

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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:37:29 -0700
From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To: Peter Münster <pm@...n.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4] net: b44: set pause params only when interface is up

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 6:51 AM Peter Münster <pm@...n.net> wrote:
>
> b44_free_rings() accesses b44::rx_buffers (and ::tx_buffers)
> unconditionally, but b44::rx_buffers is only valid when the
> device is up (they get allocated in b44_open(), and deallocated
> again in b44_close()), any other time these are just a NULL pointers.
>
> So if you try to change the pause params while the network interface
> is disabled/administratively down, everything explodes (which likely
> netifd tries to do).
>
> Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/13789
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 (Linux-2.6.12-rc2)
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Peter Münster <pm@...n.net>
> Suggested-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vaclav Svoboda <svoboda@...g.cz>
> Tested-by: Peter Münster <pm@...n.net>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Münster <pm@...n.net>

Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>

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