From: Vikas Gupta We don't register a devlink port in case of a VF so avoid setting the devlink pointer to netdev. Also, SET_NETDEV_DEVLINK_PORT has to be moved so that we determine whether the device is PF/VF first. This fixes the NULL pointer dereference of devlink_port->devlink when creating VFs: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000160 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 14 PID: 388 Comm: kworker/14:1 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.1.0-rc8 #5 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R750/06V45N, BIOS 1.3.8 08/31/2021 Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn RIP: 0010:devlink_nl_port_handle_size+0xb/0x50 Code: 83 c4 10 5b 5d c3 cc cc cc cc b8 a6 ff ff ff eb de e8 c9 59 21 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 53 48 8b 47 20 <48> 8b a8 60 01 00 00 48 8b 45 60 48 8b 38 e8 92 90 1a 00 48 8b 7d RSP: 0018:ff4fe5394846fcd8 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000794 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ff1f129683a30a40 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ff1f1296bb496188 RBP: 0000000000000334 R08: 0000000000000cc0 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ff1f1296bb494298 R11: ffffffffffffffc0 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ff1f1296bb494000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff1f129e5fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000160 CR3: 000000131f610006 CR4: 0000000000771ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: if_nlmsg_size+0x14a/0x220 rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb+0x3c/0x100 rtmsg_ifinfo+0x9c/0xc0 register_netdevice+0x59d/0x670 register_netdev+0x1c/0x40 bnxt_init_one+0x674/0xa60 [bnxt_en] local_pci_probe+0x42/0x80 work_for_cpu_fn+0x13/0x20 process_one_work+0x1e2/0x3b0 ? rescuer_thread+0x390/0x390 worker_thread+0x1c4/0x3a0 ? rescuer_thread+0x390/0x390 kthread+0xd6/0x100 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 Fixes: ac73d4bf2cda ("net: make drivers to use SET_NETDEV_DEVLINK_PORT to set devlink_port") Cc: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Vikas Gupta Reviewed-by: Andy Gospodarek Reviewed-by: Kalesh Anakkur Purayil Reviewed-by: Damodharam Ammepalli Signed-off-by: Michael Chan --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c index 4c7d07c684c4..93d32b333007 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c @@ -13591,7 +13591,6 @@ static int bnxt_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) return -ENOMEM; bp = netdev_priv(dev); - SET_NETDEV_DEVLINK_PORT(dev, &bp->dl_port); bp->board_idx = ent->driver_data; bp->msg_enable = BNXT_DEF_MSG_ENABLE; bnxt_set_max_func_irqs(bp, max_irqs); @@ -13599,6 +13598,10 @@ static int bnxt_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) if (bnxt_vf_pciid(bp->board_idx)) bp->flags |= BNXT_FLAG_VF; + /* No devlink port registration in case of a VF */ + if (BNXT_PF(bp)) + SET_NETDEV_DEVLINK_PORT(dev, &bp->dl_port); + if (pdev->msix_cap) bp->flags |= BNXT_FLAG_MSIX_CAP; -- 2.18.1