From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:05:02 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: net: cw1200: fix a NULL pointer dereference
X-Git-Tag: v5.0.20~236
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0a0bf234477632053865102d1a34554e6dc0a9ce;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

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>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c
index 90dc979f260b6..c1608f0bf6d01 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);