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CVE ID:CVE-2021-47556
Description:In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: ioctl: fix potential NULL deref in ethtool_set_coalesce() ethtool_set_coalesce() now uses both the .get_coalesce() and .set_coalesce() callbacks. But the check for their availability is buggy, so changing the coalesce settings on a device where the driver provides only _one_ of the callbacks results in a NULL pointer dereference instead of an -EOPNOTSUPP. Fix the condition so that the availability of both callbacks is ensured. This also matches the netlink code. Note that reproducing this requires some effort - it only affects the legacy ioctl path, and needs a specific combination of driver options: - have .get_coalesce() and .coalesce_supported but no .set_coalesce(), or - have .set_coalesce() but no .get_coalesce(). Here eg. ethtool doesn't cause the crash as it first attempts to call ethtool_get_coalesce() and bails out on error.
Test IDs: None available
Cross References: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-47556
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0276af2176c78771da7f311621a25d7608045827
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0276af2176c78771da7f311621a25d7608045827
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abfdd9e2f0f9699015d72317f74154d3e53664e6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abfdd9e2f0f9699015d72317f74154d3e53664e6




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