Commit 16f3a28
net: mediatek: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dummy net_device handling
Move the freeing of the dummy net_device from mtk_free_dev() to
mtk_remove().
Previously, if alloc_netdev_dummy() failed in mtk_probe(),
eth->dummy_dev would be NULL. The error path would then call
mtk_free_dev(), which in turn called free_netdev() assuming dummy_dev
was allocated (but it was not), potentially causing a NULL pointer
dereference.
By moving free_netdev() to mtk_remove(), we ensure it's only called when
mtk_probe() has succeeded and dummy_dev is fully allocated. This
addresses a potential NULL pointer dereference detected by Smatch[1].
Fixes: b209bd6 ("net: mediatek: mtk_eth_sock: allocate dummy net_device dynamically")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4160f4e0-cbef-4a22-8b5d-42c4d399e1f7@stanley.mountain/ [1]
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240724080524.2734499-1-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>1 parent e6d08d7 commit 16f3a28
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