Chad Dupuis
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The MFW may make a call to qed and then to qedf for protocol statistics while the function is still probing. If this happens it's possible that some members of the struct qedf_ctx may not be fully initialized which can result in a NULL pointer dereference or general protection fault. To prevent this, add a new flag call QEDF_PROBING and set it when the __qedf_probe() function is active. Then in the qedf_get_protocol_tlv_data() function we can check if the function is still probing and return immediantely before any uninitialized structures can be touched. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200416084314.18851-9-skashyap@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Chad Dupuis <cdupuis@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Saurav Kashyap <skashyap@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.