From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx> [ 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@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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); -- 2.20.1