If the workqueue allocation fails, the driver is marked as not initialized, and timer and panic_notifier will be left registered. Instead of removing those when workqueue allocation fails, do the workqueue initialization before doing it, and cleanup srcu_struct if it fails. Fixes: 1d49eb91e86e ("ipmi: Move remove_work to dedicated workqueue") Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ioanna Alifieraki <ioanna-maria.alifieraki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c index 84975b21fff2..266c7bc58dda 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -5396,20 +5396,23 @@ static int ipmi_init_msghandler(void) if (rv) goto out; - timer_setup(&ipmi_timer, ipmi_timeout, 0); - mod_timer(&ipmi_timer, jiffies + IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES); - - atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &panic_block); - remove_work_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("ipmi-msghandler-remove-wq"); if (!remove_work_wq) { pr_err("unable to create ipmi-msghandler-remove-wq workqueue"); rv = -ENOMEM; - goto out; + goto out_wq; } + timer_setup(&ipmi_timer, ipmi_timeout, 0); + mod_timer(&ipmi_timer, jiffies + IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES); + + atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &panic_block); + initialized = true; +out_wq: + if (rv) + cleanup_srcu_struct(&ipmi_interfaces_srcu); out: mutex_unlock(&ipmi_interfaces_mutex); return rv; -- 2.32.0