[PATCH 5.17 353/772] wilc1000: fix crash observed in AP mode with cfg80211_register_netdevice()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-07T21:06:38Z

From: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>

[ Upstream commit 868f0e28290c7a33e8cb79bfe97ebdcbb756e048 ]

Monitor(mon.) interface is used for handling the AP mode and 'ieee80211_ptr'
reference is not getting set for it. Like earlier implementation,
use register_netdevice() instead of cfg80211_register_netdevice() which
expects valid 'ieee80211_ptr' reference to avoid the possible crash.

Fixes: 2fe8ef106238 ("cfg80211: change netdev registration/unregistration semantics")
Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220504161924.2146601-3-ajay.kathat@microchip.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/mon.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/mon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/mon.c
index 6bd63934c2d8..b5a1b65c087c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/mon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/mon.c
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ struct net_device *wilc_wfi_init_mon_interface(struct wilc *wl,
wl->monitor_dev->netdev_ops = &wilc_wfi_netdev_ops;
wl->monitor_dev->needs_free_netdev = true;

- if (cfg80211_register_netdevice(wl->monitor_dev)) {
+ if (register_netdevice(wl->monitor_dev)) {
netdev_err(real_dev, "register_netdevice failed\n");
free_netdev(wl->monitor_dev);
return NULL;
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ void wilc_wfi_deinit_mon_interface(struct wilc *wl, bool rtnl_locked)
return;

if (rtnl_locked)
- cfg80211_unregister_netdevice(wl->monitor_dev);
+ unregister_netdevice(wl->monitor_dev);
else
unregister_netdev(wl->monitor_dev);
wl->monitor_dev = NULL;
--
2.35.1