Please change the patch version in subject while sending patch.
On 3/26/2019 10:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:34:06PM -0500, Kangjie Lu wrote:
In case create_singlethread_workqueue fails, the fix notifies
callers the error to avoid potential NULL pointer dereferences.
Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-Mukesh
---
removed "unlikely"
---
drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c
index 934584f0a20a..6d5b532b03f8 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c
@@ -3203,6 +3203,8 @@ static int __init u132_hcd_init(void)
return -ENODEV;
printk(KERN_INFO "driver %s\n", hcd_name);
workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue("u132");
+ if (!workqueue)
+ return -ENOMEM;
retval = platform_driver_register(&u132_platform_driver);
return retval;
if platform_driver_register() fails, shouldn't you clean up the
workqueue? That can be a separate patch, that's not your fault here :)
I have taken care of it.
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1054800/
thanks,
greg k-h
