This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: rtw89: Add missing check for alloc_workqueue 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: wifi-rtw89-add-missing-check-for-alloc_workqueue.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 3f1c0369f97012df09c2001ce4228236a72d7854 Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 4 22:29:01 2023 +0800 wifi: rtw89: Add missing check for alloc_workqueue [ Upstream commit ed9e6166eb0984b718facb7ca59296098cc3aa64 ] Add check for the return value of alloc_workqueue since it may return NULL pointer. Moreover, add destroy_workqueue when rtw89_load_firmware fails. Fixes: e3ec7017f6a2 ("rtw89: add Realtek 802.11ax driver") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104142901.1611-1-jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.c index ad420d7ec8af9..a703bb70b8f55 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.c @@ -3047,6 +3047,8 @@ int rtw89_core_init(struct rtw89_dev *rtwdev) INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rtwdev->cfo_track_work, rtw89_phy_cfo_track_work); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rtwdev->forbid_ba_work, rtw89_forbid_ba_work); rtwdev->txq_wq = alloc_workqueue("rtw89_tx_wq", WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI, 0); + if (!rtwdev->txq_wq) + return -ENOMEM; spin_lock_init(&rtwdev->ba_lock); spin_lock_init(&rtwdev->rpwm_lock); mutex_init(&rtwdev->mutex); @@ -3070,6 +3072,7 @@ int rtw89_core_init(struct rtw89_dev *rtwdev) ret = rtw89_load_firmware(rtwdev); if (ret) { rtw89_warn(rtwdev, "no firmware loaded\n"); + destroy_workqueue(rtwdev->txq_wq); return ret; } rtw89_ser_init(rtwdev);