3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Bo Chen chenbo@pdx.edu
[ Upstream commit cf1acec008f8d7761aa3fd7c4bca7e17b2d2512d ]
When the device is not up, the call to 'e1000_up()' from the error handling path of 'e1000_set_ringparam()' causes a kernel oops with a null-pointer dereference. The null-pointer dereference is triggered in function 'e1000_alloc_rx_buffers()' at line 'buffer_info = &rx_ring->buffer_info[i]'.
This bug was reported by COD, a tool for testing kernel module binaries I am building. This bug was also detected by KFI from Dr. Kai Cong.
This patch fixes the bug by checking on 'netif_running()' before calling 'e1000_up()' in 'e1000_set_ringparam()'.
Signed-off-by: Bo Chen chenbo@pdx.edu Acked-by: Alexander Duyck alexander.h.duyck@intel.com Tested-by: Aaron Brown aaron.f.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c @@ -666,7 +666,8 @@ err_setup_rx: err_alloc_rx: kfree(txdr); err_alloc_tx: - e1000_up(adapter); + if (netif_running(adapter->netdev)) + e1000_up(adapter); err_setup: clear_bit(__E1000_RESETTING, &adapter->flags); return err;