On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 23:41 +0530, Allen Pais wrote:
> alloc_workqueue is not checked for errors and as a result,
> a potential NULL dereference could occur.
Wonder why this is coming out now ... but I don't think kmalloc() was
ever 'fixed' to fail for small allocations, so I guess this will never
fail?
Anyway, as 0-day bot pointed out, this isn't really right. The cleanup
paths here are also tricky, so I arrived at this patch a few days ago:
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
index eb544811759d..882fdf7e5e7b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
@@ -3530,6 +3530,15 @@ struct iwl_trans *iwl_trans_pcie_alloc(struct pci_dev *pdev,
spin_lock_init(&trans_pcie->reg_lock);
mutex_init(&trans_pcie->mutex);
init_waitqueue_head(&trans_pcie->ucode_write_waitq);
+
+ trans_pcie->rba.alloc_wq = alloc_workqueue("rb_allocator",
+ WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_UNBOUND, 1);
+ if (!trans_pcie->rba.alloc_wq) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_free_trans;
+ }
+ INIT_WORK(&trans_pcie->rba.rx_alloc, iwl_pcie_rx_allocator_work);
+
trans_pcie->tso_hdr_page = alloc_percpu(struct iwl_tso_hdr_page);
if (!trans_pcie->tso_hdr_page) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -3664,10 +3673,6 @@ struct iwl_trans *iwl_trans_pcie_alloc(struct pci_dev *pdev,
trans_pcie->inta_mask = CSR_INI_SET_MASK;
}
- trans_pcie->rba.alloc_wq = alloc_workqueue("rb_allocator",
- WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_UNBOUND, 1);
- INIT_WORK(&trans_pcie->rba.rx_alloc, iwl_pcie_rx_allocator_work);
-
#ifdef CPTCFG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS
trans_pcie->fw_mon_data.state = IWL_FW_MON_DBGFS_STATE_CLOSED;
mutex_init(&trans_pcie->fw_mon_data.mutex);
@@ -3681,6 +3686,8 @@ out_free_ict:
iwl_pcie_free_ict(trans);
out_no_pci:
free_percpu(trans_pcie->tso_hdr_page);
+ destroy_workqueue(trans_pcie->rba.alloc_wq);
+out_free_trans:
iwl_trans_free(trans);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
johannes
