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eth: mlx4: Fix IS_ERR() vs NULL check bug in mlx4_en_create_rx_ring
authorMiaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:18:58 +0000 (20:18 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 9 Sep 2025 17:02:22 +0000 (19:02 +0200)
[ Upstream commit e580beaf43d563aaf457f1c7f934002355ebfe7b ]

Replace NULL check with IS_ERR() check after calling page_pool_create()
since this function returns error pointers (ERR_PTR).
Using NULL check could lead to invalid pointer dereference.

Fixes: 8533b14b3d65 ("eth: mlx4: create a page pool for Rx")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250828121858.67639-1-linmq006@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c

index b33285d755b90788316bb7088b08bb232d2e5d65..a626fd0d20735fb7e39bba4d09945020b1342503 100644 (file)
@@ -267,8 +267,10 @@ int mlx4_en_create_rx_ring(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
        pp.dma_dir = priv->dma_dir;
 
        ring->pp = page_pool_create(&pp);
-       if (!ring->pp)
+       if (IS_ERR(ring->pp)) {
+               err = PTR_ERR(ring->pp);
                goto err_ring;
+       }
 
        if (xdp_rxq_info_reg(&ring->xdp_rxq, priv->dev, queue_index, 0) < 0)
                goto err_pp;