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net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling
authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:05:23 +0000 (01:05 -0700)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:24:03 +0000 (11:24 +0200)
commit16f3a28cf5f876a7f3550d8f4c870a7b41bcfaef
tree3663e35a1cd909e43fb4b8c86c973ef98845915a
parente6d08d7ecf1b675b4b174d696badc36706c4233c
net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling

Move the freeing of the dummy net_device from mtk_free_dev() to
mtk_remove().

Previously, if alloc_netdev_dummy() failed in mtk_probe(),
eth->dummy_dev would be NULL. The error path would then call
mtk_free_dev(), which in turn called free_netdev() assuming dummy_dev
was allocated (but it was not), potentially causing a NULL pointer
dereference.

By moving free_netdev() to mtk_remove(), we ensure it's only called when
mtk_probe() has succeeded and dummy_dev is fully allocated. This
addresses a potential NULL pointer dereference detected by Smatch[1].

Fixes: b209bd6d0bff ("net: mediatek: mtk_eth_sock: allocate dummy net_device dynamically")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4160f4e0-cbef-4a22-8b5d-42c4d399e1f7@stanley.mountain/ [1]
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240724080524.2734499-1-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c