[PATCH] net: thunder: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Kangjie Lu
Date: Mon Mar 11 2019 - 02:05:52 EST


In case alloc_ordered_workqueue fails, the fix reports the error
and returns -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
index 503cfadff4ac..aa2be4807191 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
@@ -2234,6 +2234,12 @@ static int nicvf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
nic->nicvf_rx_mode_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("nicvf_rx_mode_wq_VF%d",
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM,
nic->vf_id);
+ if (!nic->nicvf_rx_mode_wq) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ dev_err(dev, "Failed to allocate work queue\n");
+ goto err_unregister_interrupts;
+ }
+
INIT_WORK(&nic->rx_mode_work.work, nicvf_set_rx_mode_task);
spin_lock_init(&nic->rx_mode_wq_lock);
mutex_init(&nic->rx_mode_mtx);
--
2.17.1