[PATCH 17/19] gve: fix for null pointer dereference.

Khalid Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Tue Oct 11 05:57:02 UTC 2022


From: Ameer Hamza <amhamza.mgc at gmail.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1953575

Avoid passing NULL skb to __skb_put() function call if
napi_alloc_skb() returns NULL.

Fixes: 37149e9374bf ("gve: Implement packet continuation for RX.")
Signed-off-by: Ameer Hamza <amhamza.mgc at gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211205183810.8299-1-amhamza.mgc@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit e6f60c51f0435862020bcd2d1e3257caaafe5650)
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c
index 88ca49cbc1e2..d57508bc4307 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_utils.c
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ struct sk_buff *gve_rx_copy(struct net_device *dev, struct napi_struct *napi,
 		set_protocol = ctx->curr_frag_cnt == ctx->expected_frag_cnt - 1;
 	} else {
 		skb = napi_alloc_skb(napi, len);
+
+		if (unlikely(!skb))
+			return NULL;
 		set_protocol = true;
 	}
 	__skb_put(skb, len);
-- 
2.34.1




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