--- /dev/null
+From e9756d12656229c9968af18af785bc898125e745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 09:28:33 -0800
+Subject: i40e: Add checking for null for nlmsg_find_attr()
+
+From: Natalia Petrova <n.petrova@fintech.ru>
+
+[ Upstream commit 7fa0b526f865cb42aa33917fd02a92cb03746f4d ]
+
+The result of nlmsg_find_attr() 'br_spec' is dereferenced in
+nla_for_each_nested(), but it can take NULL value in nla_find() function,
+which will result in an error.
+
+Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
+
+Fixes: 51616018dd1b ("i40e: Add support for getlink, setlink ndo ops")
+Signed-off-by: Natalia Petrova <n.petrova@fintech.ru>
+Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
+Tested-by: Gurucharan G <gurucharanx.g@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
+Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
+Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230209172833.3596034-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
+Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
+Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+---
+ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+index 67b7e37925191..de8a713db078f 100644
+--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
++++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+@@ -9453,6 +9453,8 @@ static int i40e_ndo_bridge_setlink(struct net_device *dev,
+ }
+
+ br_spec = nlmsg_find_attr(nlh, sizeof(struct ifinfomsg), IFLA_AF_SPEC);
++ if (!br_spec)
++ return -EINVAL;
+
+ nla_for_each_nested(attr, br_spec, rem) {
+ __u16 mode;
+--
+2.39.0
+