Re: [PATCH 4.19 09/72] net: ieee802154: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri May 03 2019 - 04:32:43 EST


On Thu 2019-05-02 17:20:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> [ Upstream commit 2795e8c251614ac0784c9d41008551109f665716 ]
>
> In case alloc_ordered_workqueue fails, the fix releases
> sources and returns -ENOMEM to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin (Microsoft) <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c
> index cd1d8faccca5..cd6b95e673a5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c
> @@ -1268,6 +1268,10 @@ static int adf7242_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
> INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&lp->work, adf7242_rx_cal_work);
> lp->wqueue = alloc_ordered_workqueue(dev_name(&spi->dev),
> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
> + if (unlikely(!lp->wqueue)) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto err_hw_init;
> + }
>

This does ieee802154_free_hw(lp->hw) before adf7242_hw_init(). I don't
think that's correct.
Pavel
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