The 'rt2x00lib_probe_dev' function tries to allocate the workqueue. If the allocation fails, 'rt2x00_lib_remove_dev' is called on the error path. Because 'rt2x00dev->workqueue' is NULL in this case, the 'destroy_workqueue' call will cause a NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c index bae5b01..d62e64f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c @@ -1232,7 +1232,8 @@ void rt2x00lib_remove_dev(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev) cancel_work_sync(&rt2x00dev->rxdone_work); cancel_work_sync(&rt2x00dev->txdone_work); } - destroy_workqueue(rt2x00dev->workqueue); + if (rt2x00dev->workqueue) + destroy_workqueue(rt2x00dev->workqueue); /* * Free the tx status fifo. -- 1.7.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html