aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/drivers
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorKangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>2018-12-21 00:22:32 -0600
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-12-21 09:01:47 -0800
commitd134e486e831defd26130770181f01dfc6195f7d (patch)
treeea068e4e901b4d391436c58352a3b37ffd1123a8 /drivers
parenttcp: fix a race in inet_diag_dump_icsk() (diff)
downloadlinux-dev-d134e486e831defd26130770181f01dfc6195f7d.tar.xz
linux-dev-d134e486e831defd26130770181f01dfc6195f7d.zip
net: netxen: fix a missing check and an uninitialized use
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
index 0ea141ece19e..6547a9dd5935 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]);