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Commit 0a242eb2 authored by Íñigo Huguet's avatar Íñigo Huguet Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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sfc: fix null pointer dereference in efx_hard_start_xmit



Trying to get the channel from the tx_queue variable here is wrong
because we can only be here if tx_queue is NULL, so we shouldn't
dereference it. As the above comment in the code says, this is very
unlikely to happen, but it's wrong anyway so let's fix it.

I hit this issue because of a different bug that caused tx_queue to be
NULL. If that happens, this is the error message that we get here:
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
  [...]
  RIP: 0010:efx_hard_start_xmit+0x153/0x170 [sfc]

Fixes: 12804793 ("sfc: decouple TXQ type from label")
Reported-by: default avatarTianhao Zhao <tizhao@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarÍñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarEdward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220914111135.21038-1-ihuguet@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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