This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cfg80211: check dev_set_name() return value to the 4.14-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: cfg80211-check-dev_set_name-return-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 59b179b48ce2a6076448a44531242ac2b3f6cef2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:58:27 +0100 Subject: cfg80211: check dev_set_name() return value From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> commit 59b179b48ce2a6076448a44531242ac2b3f6cef2 upstream. syzbot reported a warning from rfkill_alloc(), and after a while I think that the reason is that it was doing fault injection and the dev_set_name() failed, leaving the name NULL, and we didn't check the return value and got to rfkill_alloc() with a NULL name. Since we really don't want a NULL name, we ought to check the return value. Fixes: fb28ad35906a ("net: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()") Reported-by: syzbot+1ddfb3357e1d7bb5b5d3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/core.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/wireless/core.c +++ b/net/wireless/core.c @@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ struct wiphy *wiphy_new_nm(const struct if (rv) goto use_default_name; } else { + int rv; + use_default_name: /* NOTE: This is *probably* safe w/out holding rtnl because of * the restrictions on phy names. Probably this call could @@ -446,7 +448,11 @@ use_default_name: * phyX. But, might should add some locking and check return * value, and use a different name if this one exists? */ - dev_set_name(&rdev->wiphy.dev, PHY_NAME "%d", rdev->wiphy_idx); + rv = dev_set_name(&rdev->wiphy.dev, PHY_NAME "%d", rdev->wiphy_idx); + if (rv < 0) { + kfree(rdev); + return NULL; + } } INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rdev->wiphy.wdev_list); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/cfg80211-check-dev_set_name-return-value.patch queue-4.14/mac80211_hwsim-validate-number-of-different-channels.patch