Re: [PATCH 095/190] Revert "rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"

Bryan Brattlof
2021-04-27T01:22:02Z

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:30PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
>This reverts commit 765976285a8c8db3f0eb7f033829a899d0c2786e.
>
>Commits from @umn.edu addresses have been found to be submitted in "bad
>faith" to try to test the kernel community's ability to review "known
>malicious" changes. The result of these submissions can be found in a
>paper published at the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
>entitled, "Open Source Insecurity: Stealthily Introducing
>Vulnerabilities via Hypocrite Commits" written by Qiushi Wu (University
>of Minnesota) and Kangjie Lu (University of Minnesota).
>
>Because of this, all submissions from this group must be reverted from
>the kernel tree and will need to be re-reviewed again to determine if
>they actually are a valid fix. Until that work is complete, remove this
>change to ensure that no problems are being introduced into the
>codebase.
>
>Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
>Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
>Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>---
> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
>index 6e8bd99e8911..1d067536889e 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
>@@ -452,11 +452,6 @@ static void _rtl_init_deferred_work(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
> /* <2> work queue */
> rtlpriv->works.hw = hw;
> rtlpriv->works.rtl_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s", 0, 0, rtlpriv->cfg->name);
>- if (unlikely(!rtlpriv->works.rtl_wq)) {
>- pr_err("Failed to allocate work queue\n");
>- return;
>- }
>-
>

Hey Greg!

If you're still working on this series, this patch looks to be a
legitimate fix for the potential NULL pointer.

However we should probably inform 'rtw_init_core()' of this failure in
addition to printing about it.

Do you want to apply this revert and I send a fix after this has made
its way through?

--
~Bryan

>
> INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rtlpriv->works.watchdog_wq,
> rtl_watchdog_wq_callback);
> INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rtlpriv->works.ips_nic_off_wq,
>--
>2.31.1
>