Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2] igb: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ethtool loopback test

From: Paul Menzel
Date: Tue Aug 12 2025 - 10:18:45 EST


Dear Tianyu,


Thank you for your patch.

Am 12.08.25 um 15:10 schrieb Tianyu Xu:
The igb driver currently causes a NULL pointer dereference when executing
the ethtool loopback test. This occurs because there is no associated

Where is this test located? Or, how do I run the test manually?

q_vector for the test ring when it is set up, as interrupts are typically
not added to the test rings.

Since commit 5ef44b3cb43b removed the napi_id assignment in
__xdp_rxq_info_reg(), there is no longer a need to pass a napi_id to it.
Therefore, simply use 0 as the last parameter.

Fixes: 2c6196013f84 ("igb: Add AF_XDP zero-copy Rx support")
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Joe Damato <joe@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tianyu Xu <tianyxu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Thanks to Aleksandr and Joe for your feedback. I have added the Fixes tag
and formatted the lines to 75 characters based on your comments.

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index a9a7a94ae..453deb6d1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -4453,8 +4453,7 @@ int igb_setup_rx_resources(struct igb_ring *rx_ring)
if (xdp_rxq_info_is_reg(&rx_ring->xdp_rxq))
xdp_rxq_info_unreg(&rx_ring->xdp_rxq);
res = xdp_rxq_info_reg(&rx_ring->xdp_rxq, rx_ring->netdev,
- rx_ring->queue_index,
- rx_ring->q_vector->napi.napi_id);
+ rx_ring->queue_index, 0);
if (res < 0) {
dev_err(dev, "Failed to register xdp_rxq index %u\n",
rx_ring->queue_index);

Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Kind regards,

Paul