From: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
When driver gets unloaded due to error situation there is a chance
a packet gets received while fws has already been cleaned up. This
will result in kernel crash. This patch adds a check to avoid this
crash.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c
index d42f7d0..183f08d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c
@@ -1636,7 +1636,7 @@ int brcmf_fws_hdrpull(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, int ifidx, s16 signal_len,
if (!signal_len)
return 0;
/* if flow control disabled, skip to packet data and leave */
- if (!fws->fw_signals) {
+ if ((!fws) || (!fws->fw_signals)) {
skb_pull(skb, signal_len);
return 0;
}
--
1.9.1
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