This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: iwl3945: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue to the 5.15-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-iwl3945-add-missing-check-for-create_singlethre.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 58fc02ae9f270cf9562c975f95553b53e199f2dd Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Feb 8 14:30:32 2023 +0800 wifi: iwl3945: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue [ Upstream commit 1fdeb8b9f29dfd64805bb49475ac7566a3cb06cb ] Add the check for the return value of the create_singlethread_workqueue in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Fixes: b481de9ca074 ("[IWLWIFI]: add iwlwifi wireless drivers") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230208063032.42763-2-jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/3945-mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/3945-mac.c index 45abb25b65a9f..04c149ff745e9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/3945-mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/3945-mac.c @@ -3378,10 +3378,12 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(dump_errors, 0200, NULL, il3945_dump_error_log); * *****************************************************************************/ -static void +static int il3945_setup_deferred_work(struct il_priv *il) { il->workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue(DRV_NAME); + if (!il->workqueue) + return -ENOMEM; init_waitqueue_head(&il->wait_command_queue); @@ -3398,6 +3400,8 @@ il3945_setup_deferred_work(struct il_priv *il) timer_setup(&il->watchdog, il_bg_watchdog, 0); tasklet_setup(&il->irq_tasklet, il3945_irq_tasklet); + + return 0; } static void @@ -3717,7 +3721,10 @@ il3945_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) } il_set_rxon_channel(il, &il->bands[NL80211_BAND_2GHZ].channels[5]); - il3945_setup_deferred_work(il); + err = il3945_setup_deferred_work(il); + if (err) + goto out_remove_sysfs; + il3945_setup_handlers(il); il_power_initialize(il); @@ -3729,7 +3736,7 @@ il3945_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) err = il3945_setup_mac(il); if (err) - goto out_remove_sysfs; + goto out_destroy_workqueue; il_dbgfs_register(il, DRV_NAME); @@ -3738,9 +3745,10 @@ il3945_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) return 0; -out_remove_sysfs: +out_destroy_workqueue: destroy_workqueue(il->workqueue); il->workqueue = NULL; +out_remove_sysfs: sysfs_remove_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &il3945_attribute_group); out_release_irq: free_irq(il->pci_dev->irq, il);