[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 076/317] net: cw1200: fix a NULL pointer dereference

Sasha Levin
2019-05-22T19:53:45Z

From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>

[ Upstream commit 0ed2a005347400500a39ea7c7318f1fea57fb3ca ]

In case create_singlethread_workqueue fails, the fix free the
hardware and returns NULL to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c
index 90dc979f260b6..c1608f0bf6d01 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c
@@ -345,6 +345,11 @@ static struct ieee80211_hw *cw1200_init_common(const u8 *macaddr,
mutex_init(&priv->wsm_cmd_mux);
mutex_init(&priv->conf_mutex);
priv->workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue("cw1200_wq");
+ if (!priv->workqueue) {
+ ieee80211_free_hw(hw);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
sema_init(&priv->scan.lock, 1);
INIT_WORK(&priv->scan.work, cw1200_scan_work);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&priv->scan.probe_work, cw1200_probe_work);
--
2.20.1