This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled power: supply: cw2015: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in cw_bat_probe() to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: power-supply-cw2015-fix-potential-null-ptr-deref-in-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b589af2d575d29334aed2dbce3a6ef3e9a4209d4 Author: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 17 10:45:58 2022 +0800 power: supply: cw2015: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in cw_bat_probe() [ Upstream commit 97f2b4ddb0aa700d673691a7d5e44d226d22bab7 ] cw_bat_probe() calls create_singlethread_workqueue() and not checked the ret value, which may return NULL. And a null-ptr-deref may happen: cw_bat_probe() create_singlethread_workqueue() # failed, cw_bat->wq is NULL queue_delayed_work() queue_delayed_work_on() __queue_delayed_work() # warning here, but continue __queue_work() # access wq->flags, null-ptr-deref Check the ret value and return -ENOMEM if it is NULL. Fixes: b4c7715c10c1 ("power: supply: add CellWise cw2015 fuel gauge driver") Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/cw2015_battery.c b/drivers/power/supply/cw2015_battery.c index 6d52641151d9..473522b4326a 100644 --- a/drivers/power/supply/cw2015_battery.c +++ b/drivers/power/supply/cw2015_battery.c @@ -699,6 +699,9 @@ static int cw_bat_probe(struct i2c_client *client) } cw_bat->battery_workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue("rk_battery"); + if (!cw_bat->battery_workqueue) + return -ENOMEM; + devm_delayed_work_autocancel(&client->dev, &cw_bat->battery_delay_work, cw_bat_work); queue_delayed_work(cw_bat->battery_workqueue,