Revert "qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference"

commit b95b57dfe7a142bf2446548eb7f49340fd73e78b upstream.

This reverts commit 5bf7295fe34a5251b1d241b9736af4697b590670.

Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all
commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were
correct or not.

Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons
below, so it must be reverted.  It will be fixed up "correctly" in a
later kernel change.

This commit does not properly detect if an error happens because the
logic after this loop will not detect that there was a failed
allocation.

Cc: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fixes: 5bf7295fe34a ("qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-25-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
index a4cd6f2cfb862cb25315823d155b5497e59f5c2f..3b0adda7cc9c66769f84a1047a91aaa33c7939c8 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
@@ -1048,8 +1048,6 @@ int qlcnic_do_lb_test(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter, u8 mode)
 
        for (i = 0; i < QLCNIC_NUM_ILB_PKT; i++) {
                skb = netdev_alloc_skb(adapter->netdev, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
-               if (!skb)
-                       break;
                qlcnic_create_loopback_buff(skb->data, adapter->mac_addr);
                skb_put(skb, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
                adapter->ahw->diag_cnt = 0;