[PATCH 4.19 036/219] libertas: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-29T17:29:07Z

From: Allen Pais <allen.pais@oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit 7da413a18583baaf35dd4a8eb414fa410367d7f2 ]

alloc_workqueue is not checked for errors and as a result,
a potential NULL dereference could occur.

Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.pais@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_sdio.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_sdio.c
index 39bf85d0ade0..c7f8a29d2606 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_sdio.c
@@ -1183,6 +1183,10 @@ static int if_sdio_probe(struct sdio_func *func,

spin_lock_init(&card->lock);
card->workqueue = alloc_workqueue("libertas_sdio", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
+ if (unlikely(!card->workqueue)) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_queue;
+ }
INIT_WORK(&card->packet_worker, if_sdio_host_to_card_worker);
init_waitqueue_head(&card->pwron_waitq);

@@ -1234,6 +1238,7 @@ err_activate_card:
lbs_remove_card(priv);
free:
destroy_workqueue(card->workqueue);
+err_queue:
while (card->packets) {
packet = card->packets;
card->packets = card->packets->next;
--
2.20.1