From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 11:56:51 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Revert "qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference" X-Git-Tag: v4.4.270~13 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7dff1c984b61feb56ed3467c5de23efad18aa154;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git 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 Cc: David S. Miller Fixes: 5bf7295fe34a ("qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference") Cc: stable Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-25-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c index 63ebc491057b6..0a2318cad34d7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c @@ -1038,8 +1038,6 @@ 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;