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Subject[PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 11/12] net: netxen: fix a missing check and an uninitialized use
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From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>

[ Upstream commit d134e486e831defd26130770181f01dfc6195f7d ]

When netxen_rom_fast_read() fails, "bios" is left uninitialized and may
contain random value, thus should not be used.

The fix ensures that if netxen_rom_fast_read() fails, we return "-EIO".

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
index 5c4068353f66..746612a88515 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
@@ -1125,7 +1125,8 @@ netxen_validate_firmware(struct netxen_adapter *adapter)
return -EINVAL;
}
val = nx_get_bios_version(adapter);
- netxen_rom_fast_read(adapter, NX_BIOS_VERSION_OFFSET, (int *)&bios);
+ if (netxen_rom_fast_read(adapter, NX_BIOS_VERSION_OFFSET, (int *)&bios))
+ return -EIO;
if ((__force u32)val != bios) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "%s: firmware bios is incompatible\n",
fw_name[fw_type]);
--
2.19.1
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