[PATCH net-next] net: ethtool: phy: Check the req_info.pdn field for GET commands

Maxime Chevallier maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com
Tue Sep 10 10:46:35 PDT 2024


When processing the netlink GET requests to get PHY info, the req_info.pdn
pointer is NULL when no PHY matches the requested parameters, such as when
the phy_index is invalid, or there's simply no PHY attached to the
interface.

Therefore, check the req_info.pdn pointer for NULL instead of
dereferencing it.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CANn89iKRW0WpGAh1tKqY345D8WkYCPm3Y9ym--Si42JZrQAu1g@mail.gmail.com/T/#mfced87d607d18ea32b3b4934dfa18d7b36669285
Fixes: 17194be4c8e1 ("net: ethtool: Introduce a command to list PHYs on an interface")
Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com>
---
Hi,

I'm targetting net-next as the commit this patch fixes is still in
net-next.

 net/ethtool/phy.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ethtool/phy.c b/net/ethtool/phy.c
index 560dd039c662..4ef7c6e32d10 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/phy.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/phy.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ int ethnl_phy_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		goto err_unlock_rtnl;
 
 	/* No PHY, return early */
-	if (!req_info.pdn->phy)
+	if (!req_info.pdn)
 		goto err_unlock_rtnl;
 
 	ret = ethnl_phy_reply_size(&req_info.base, info->extack);
-- 
2.46.0




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