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authorKangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>2019-03-12 03:05:02 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-05-31 06:46:15 -0700
commit31de7f1d07b5b241187d49cedb6284e4d70b4466 (patch)
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net: cw1200: fix a NULL pointer dereference
[ 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c
index 90dc979f260b..c1608f0bf6d0 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);