[PATCH 5.14 19/30] mac80211: check return value of rhashtable_init

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-14T15:04:42Z

From: MichelleJin <shjy180909@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 111461d573741c17eafad029ac93474fa9adcce0 ]

When rhashtable_init() fails, it returns -EINVAL.
However, since error return value of rhashtable_init is not checked,
it can cause use of uninitialized pointers.
So, fix unhandled errors of rhashtable_init.

Signed-off-by: MichelleJin <shjy180909@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210927033457.1020967-4-shjy180909@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
index efbefcbac3ac..7cab1cf09bf1 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
@@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ static struct mesh_table *mesh_table_alloc(void)
atomic_set(&newtbl->entries, 0);
spin_lock_init(&newtbl->gates_lock);
spin_lock_init(&newtbl->walk_lock);
- rhashtable_init(&newtbl->rhead, &mesh_rht_params);
+ if (rhashtable_init(&newtbl->rhead, &mesh_rht_params)) {
+ kfree(newtbl);
+ return NULL;
+ }

return newtbl;
}
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2.33.0