[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: phy: mdio-mux: Check return value of mdiobus_alloc()" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: phy: mdio-mux: Check return value of mdiobus_alloc()

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt2.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d8b5f9470b4f67626719784595aab82f4fd6663a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser at distanz.ch>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:51:51 +0100
Subject: net: phy: mdio-mux: Check return value of mdiobus_alloc()

commit 20b08e1a793d898f0f13040d5418ee0955f678cf upstream.

mdiobus_alloc() might return NULL, but its return value is not
checked in mdio_mux_init(). This could potentially lead to a NULL
pointer dereference. Fix it by checking the return value

Fixes: 0ca2997d1452 ("netdev/of/phy: Add MDIO bus multiplexer support.")
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser at distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c
index 4d4d25e..ac8a823 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux.c
@@ -148,9 +148,14 @@ int mdio_mux_init(struct device *dev,
 		}
 		cb->bus_number = v;
 		cb->parent = pb;
+
 		cb->mii_bus = mdiobus_alloc();
+		if (!cb->mii_bus) {
+			ret_val = -ENOMEM;
+			of_node_put(child_bus_node);
+			break;
+		}
 		cb->mii_bus->priv = cb;
-
 		cb->mii_bus->irq = cb->phy_irq;
 		cb->mii_bus->name = "mdio_mux";
 		snprintf(cb->mii_bus->id, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE, "%x.%x",
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