netdev - [PATCH net] net: phy: fix potential use of NULL pointer in phy

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Message-Id: <E1sN8tn-00GDCZ-Jj@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:32:11 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net: phy: fix potential use of NULL pointer in
 phy_suspend()

phy_suspend() checks the WoL status, and then dereferences
phydrv->flags if (and only if) we decided that WoL has been enabled
on either the PHY or the netdev.

We then check whether phydrv was NULL, but we've potentially already
dereferenced the pointer.

If phydrv is NULL, then phy_ethtool_get_wol() will return an error
and leave wol.wolopts set to zero. However, if netdev->wol_enabled
is true, then we would dereference a NULL pointer.

Checking the PHY drivers, the only place that phydev->wol_enabled is
checked by them is in their suspend/resume callbacks and nowhere else
(which is correct, because phylib only updates this in phy_suspend()).

So, move the NULL pointer check earlier to avoid a NULL pointer
dereference. Leave the check for phydrv->suspend in place as a driver
may populate the .resume method but not the .suspend method.

Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 6c6ec9475709..19f8ae113dd3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -1980,7 +1980,7 @@ int phy_suspend(struct phy_device *phydev)
 	const struct phy_driver *phydrv = phydev->drv;
 	int ret;

-	if (phydev->suspended)
+	if (phydev->suspended || !phydrv)
 		return 0;

 	phy_ethtool_get_wol(phydev, &wol);
@@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@ int phy_suspend(struct phy_device *phydev)
 	if (phydev->wol_enabled && !(phydrv->flags & PHY_ALWAYS_CALL_SUSPEND))
 		return -EBUSY;

-	if (!phydrv || !phydrv->suspend)
+	if (!phydrv->suspend)
 		return 0;

 	ret = phydrv->suspend(phydev);
-- 
2.30.2