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Revert "net: liquidio: fix a NULL pointer dereference"

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This reverts commit fe543b2f174f34a7a751aa08b334fe6b105c4569.

Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all
commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were
correct or not.

Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons
below, so it must be reverted.  It will be fixed up "correctly" in a
later kernel change.

While the original commit does keep the immediate "NULL dereference"
from happening, it does not properly propagate the error back to the
callers, AND it does not fix this same identical issue in the
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c for some reason.

Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-65-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Greg Kroah-Hartman 2021-05-03 13:57:31 +02:00
parent dacb408ca6
commit 4fd798a5a8
1 changed files with 0 additions and 5 deletions

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drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c

@ -1166,11 +1166,6 @@ static void send_rx_ctrl_cmd(struct lio *lio, int start_stop)
sc = (struct octeon_soft_command *)
octeon_alloc_soft_command(oct, OCTNET_CMD_SIZE,
16, 0);
if (!sc) {
netif_info(lio, rx_err, lio->netdev,
"Failed to allocate octeon_soft_command\n");
return;
}
ncmd = (union octnet_cmd *)sc->virtdptr;