[PATCH net] qede: confirm skb is allocated before using

From: Jamie Bainbridge
Date: Wed Apr 06 2022 - 09:48:23 EST


qede_build_skb() assumes build_skb() always works and goes straight
to skb_reserve(). However, build_skb() can fail under memory pressure.
This results in a kernel panic because the skb to reserve is NULL.

Add a check in case build_skb() failed to allocate and return NULL.

The NULL return is handled correctly in callers to qede_build_skb().

Fixes: 8a8633978b842 ("qede: Add build_skb() support.")
Signed-off-by: Jamie Bainbridge <jamie.bainbridge@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_fp.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_fp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_fp.c
index b242000a77fd8db322672e541df074be9b5ce9ef..b7cc36589f592e995e3a12bb80bc7c8e3af7dc42 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_fp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_fp.c
@@ -748,6 +748,9 @@ qede_build_skb(struct qede_rx_queue *rxq,
buf = page_address(bd->data) + bd->page_offset;
skb = build_skb(buf, rxq->rx_buf_seg_size);

+ if (unlikely(!skb))
+ return NULL;
+
skb_reserve(skb, pad);
skb_put(skb, len);

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2.35.1