From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Removing the "if (IS_ERR(dir)) dir = NULL;" check only works if we adjust the remaining code to not rely on it being NULL. Check IS_ERR_OR_NULL() before attempting to dereference it. I'm not actually entirely sure this fixes the syzbot crash as the kernel config indicates that they do have DEBUG_FS in the kernel, but this is what I found when looking there. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: d82574a8e5a4 ("cfg80211: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions") Reported-by: syzbot+fd5332e429401bf42d18@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index 341402b4f178..ce024440fa51 100644 --- a/net/wireless/core.c +++ b/net/wireless/core.c @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, if (result) return result; - if (rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir) + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir)) debugfs_rename(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir->d_parent, rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir, rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir->d_parent, newname); -- 2.26.2