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* [PATCH] mwifiex: fix adapter pointer dereference issue
@ 2013-07-31  0:18 Bing Zhao
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From: Bing Zhao @ 2013-07-31  0:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-wireless
  Cc: John W. Linville, Dan Carpenter, Amitkumar Karwar, Avinash Patil,
	Nishant Sarmukadam, Frank Huang, Bing Zhao

From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>

It has introduced by recent commit 6b41f941d7cd: "mwifiex:
handle driver initialization error paths" which adds error
path handling for mwifiex_fw_dpc().

release_firmware(adapter->*) is called for success as well
as failure paths. In failure paths, adapter is already freed
at this point.

The issue is fixed by moving mwifiex_free_adapter() call.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
index 5644c7f..3402bff 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
@@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ static void mwifiex_fw_dpc(const struct firmware *firmware, void *context)
 	struct mwifiex_private *priv;
 	struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter = context;
 	struct mwifiex_fw_image fw;
+	struct semaphore *sem = adapter->card_sem;
+	bool init_failed = false;
 
 	if (!firmware) {
 		dev_err(adapter->dev,
@@ -528,15 +530,20 @@ err_dnld_fw:
 	}
 	adapter->surprise_removed = true;
 	mwifiex_terminate_workqueue(adapter);
-	mwifiex_free_adapter(adapter);
+	init_failed = true;
 done:
 	if (adapter->cal_data) {
 		release_firmware(adapter->cal_data);
 		adapter->cal_data = NULL;
 	}
-	release_firmware(adapter->firmware);
+	if (adapter->firmware) {
+		release_firmware(adapter->firmware);
+		adapter->firmware = NULL;
+	}
 	complete(&adapter->fw_load);
-	up(adapter->card_sem);
+	if (init_failed)
+		mwifiex_free_adapter(adapter);
+	up(sem);
 	return;
 }
 
-- 
1.8.2.3


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