This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: bdisp: Add missing check for create_workqueue to the 4.19-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: media-bdisp-add-missing-check-for-create_workqueue.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1c55148fc145e5752e59b5c4d2e369a3ac44c8ef Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Feb 8 08:14:42 2023 +0100 media: bdisp: Add missing check for create_workqueue [ Upstream commit 2371adeab717d8fe32144a84f3491a03c5838cfb ] Add the check for the return value of the create_workqueue in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Fixes: 28ffeebbb7bd ("[media] bdisp: 2D blitter driver using v4l2 mem2mem framework") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c b/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c index 00f6e3f06dac5..7a7271f9d875a 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c @@ -1312,6 +1312,8 @@ static int bdisp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) init_waitqueue_head(&bdisp->irq_queue); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&bdisp->timeout_work, bdisp_irq_timeout); bdisp->work_queue = create_workqueue(BDISP_NAME); + if (!bdisp->work_queue) + return -ENOMEM; spin_lock_init(&bdisp->slock); mutex_init(&bdisp->lock);