Patch "net: dp83640: Avoid NULL pointer dereference." has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net: dp83640: Avoid NULL pointer dereference.

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
net-dp83640-avoid-null-pointer-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 17:51:31 +0200
Subject: net: dp83640: Avoid NULL pointer dereference.

From: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>

commit db9d8b29d19d2801793e4419f4c6272bf8951c62 upstream.

The function, skb_complete_tx_timestamp(), used to allow passing in a NULL pointer for the time stamps, but that was changed in commit 62bccb8cdb69051b95a55ab0c489e3cab261c8ef ("net-timestamp: Make the clone operation stand-alone from phy timestamping"), and the existing call sites, all of which are in the dp83640 driver, were fixed up.

Even though the kernel-doc was subsequently updated in commit 7a76a021cd5a292be875fbc616daf03eab1e6996 ("net-timestamp: Update skb_complete_tx_timestamp comment"), still a bug fix from Manfred Rudigier came into the driver using the old semantics. Probably Manfred derived that patch from an older kernel version.

This fix should be applied to the stable trees as well.

---
 drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ static void decode_txts(struct dp83640_p
 	if (overflow) {
 		pr_debug("tx timestamp queue overflow, count %d\n", overflow);
 		while (skb) {
-			skb_complete_tx_timestamp(skb, NULL);
+			kfree_skb(skb);
 			skb = skb_dequeue(&dp83640->tx_queue);
 		}
 		return;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/net-dp83640-avoid-null-pointer-dereference.patch