From: Dmitry Antipov Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:12:05 +0000 (+0300) Subject: wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware X-Git-Tag: v6.16-rc3~27^2~1^2~1^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware Syzkaller reports [1, 2] crashes caused by an attempts to ping the device which has failed to load firmware. Since such a device doesn't pass 'ieee80211_register_hw()', an internal workqueue managed by 'ieee80211_queue_work()' is not yet created and an attempt to queue work on it causes null-ptr-deref. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9a4aec827829942045ff [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0d8afba53e8fb2633217 Fixes: e4a668c59080 ("carl9170: fix spurious restart due to high latency") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov Acked-by: Christian Lamparter Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250616181205.38883-1-dmantipov@yandex.ru Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c index a3e03580cd9ff..564ca6a619856 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c @@ -438,14 +438,21 @@ static void carl9170_usb_rx_complete(struct urb *urb) if (atomic_read(&ar->rx_anch_urbs) == 0) { /* - * The system is too slow to cope with - * the enormous workload. We have simply - * run out of active rx urbs and this - * unfortunately leads to an unpredictable - * device. + * At this point, either the system is too slow to + * cope with the enormous workload (so we have simply + * run out of active rx urbs and this unfortunately + * leads to an unpredictable device), or the device + * is not fully functional after an unsuccessful + * firmware loading attempts (so it doesn't pass + * ieee80211_register_hw() and there is no internal + * workqueue at all). */ - ieee80211_queue_work(ar->hw, &ar->ping_work); + if (ar->registered) + ieee80211_queue_work(ar->hw, &ar->ping_work); + else + pr_warn_once("device %s is not registered\n", + dev_name(&ar->udev->dev)); } } else { /*