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Message-ID: <20250902232131.2739555-7-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 16:21:26 -0700
From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
To: davem@...emloft.net,
kuba@...nel.org,
pabeni@...hat.com,
edumazet@...gle.com,
andrew+netdev@...n.ch,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Zhen Ni <zhen.ni@...ystack.cn>,
anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com,
dledford@...hat.com,
przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com,
Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Subject: [PATCH net 6/8] i40e: Fix potential invalid access when MAC list is empty
From: Zhen Ni <zhen.ni@...ystack.cn>
list_first_entry() never returns NULL - if the list is empty, it still
returns a pointer to an invalid object, leading to potential invalid
memory access when dereferenced.
Fix this by using list_first_entry_or_null instead of list_first_entry.
Fixes: e3219ce6a775 ("i40e: Add support for client interface for IWARP driver")
Signed-off-by: Zhen Ni <zhen.ni@...ystack.cn>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
index 5f1a405cbbf8..518bc738ea3b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
@@ -359,8 +359,8 @@ static void i40e_client_add_instance(struct i40e_pf *pf)
if (i40e_client_get_params(vsi, &cdev->lan_info.params))
goto free_cdev;
- mac = list_first_entry(&cdev->lan_info.netdev->dev_addrs.list,
- struct netdev_hw_addr, list);
+ mac = list_first_entry_or_null(&cdev->lan_info.netdev->dev_addrs.list,
+ struct netdev_hw_addr, list);
if (mac)
ether_addr_copy(cdev->lan_info.lanmac, mac->addr);
else
--
2.47.1
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