Vulnerability CVE-2024-40928
Published: 2024-07-12

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ethtool: fix the error condition in ethtool_get_phy_stats_ethtool()

Clang static checker (scan-build) warning:
net/ethtool/ioctl.c:line 2233, column 2
Called function pointer is null (null dereference).

Return '-EOPNOTSUPP' when 'ops->get_ethtool_phy_stats' is NULL to fix
this typo error.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6548d543a27449a1a3d8079925de93f5764d6f22
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92196be82a4eb61813833dc62876fd198ae51ab1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dcc53abf58d572d34c5313de85f607cd33fc691
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