This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: wl3501_cs: Fix an error handling path in wl3501_probe()
to the 5.4-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-wl3501_cs-fix-an-error-handling-path-in-wl3501_.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 27ed8f9cf820b41bbf02b9d9948fd443406b59b3
Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat May 20 10:05:08 2023 +0200
wifi: wl3501_cs: Fix an error handling path in wl3501_probe()
[ Upstream commit 391af06a02e7642039ac5f6c4b2c034ab0992b5d ]
Should wl3501_config() fail, some resources need to be released as already
done in the remove function.
Fixes: 15b99ac17295 ("[PATCH] pcmcia: add return value to _config() functions")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7cc9c9316489b7d69b36aeb0edd3123538500b41.1684569865.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c
index ae660f25a0e5a..e6505624f0c28 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c
@@ -1862,6 +1862,7 @@ static int wl3501_probe(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev)
{
struct net_device *dev;
struct wl3501_card *this;
+ int ret;
/* The io structure describes IO port mapping */
p_dev->resource[0]->end = 16;
@@ -1873,8 +1874,7 @@ static int wl3501_probe(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev)
dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct wl3501_card));
if (!dev)
- goto out_link;
-
+ return -ENOMEM;
dev->netdev_ops = &wl3501_netdev_ops;
dev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ;
@@ -1887,9 +1887,15 @@ static int wl3501_probe(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev)
netif_stop_queue(dev);
p_dev->priv = dev;
- return wl3501_config(p_dev);
-out_link:
- return -ENOMEM;
+ ret = wl3501_config(p_dev);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_free_etherdev;
+
+ return 0;
+
+out_free_etherdev:
+ free_netdev(dev);
+ return ret;
}
static int wl3501_config(struct pcmcia_device *link)
