From patchwork Mon May 24 15:25:03 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Greg Kroah-Hartman X-Patchwork-Id: 448115 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-19.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D7BC2B9F8 for ; Mon, 24 May 2021 15:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64EB4613C8 for ; Mon, 24 May 2021 15:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233530AbhEXPdk (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2021 11:33:40 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:50522 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233274AbhEXPcm (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2021 11:32:42 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E187F613D0; Mon, 24 May 2021 15:30:57 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1621870258; bh=PwZyXvvsQj6OH8etcpIiEPUTgcPTFwVs5Hi0HRYzK9o=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=kBkzR++1TuJHonhvi4tt6pgJwMPhr3RNASpEFcfAl5lzZ3+RyCtYoQHR0TxEpY/JO yDwPjpugvNAmEGXwN75CE9ZoJUsqXrafYLqnQTpxAK/rYi7OWFd+gg+rzkwm5LurRQ YrM4zktX562rH2rFRZNCWINd++lpFRXQcbEdZ9M8= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu , Kalle Valo , Bryan Brattlof Subject: [PATCH 4.4 20/31] Revert "rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference" Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 17:25:03 +0200 Message-Id: <20210524152323.582040033@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20210524152322.919918360@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20210524152322.919918360@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 68c5634c4a7278672a3bed00eb5646884257c413 upstream. This reverts commit 765976285a8c8db3f0eb7f033829a899d0c2786e. Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were correct or not. Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a later kernel change. This commit is not correct, it should not have used unlikely() and is not propagating the error properly to the calling function, so it should be reverted at this point in time. Also, if the check failed, the work queue was still assumed to be allocated, so further accesses would have continued to fail, meaning this patch does nothing to solve the root issues at all. Cc: Kangjie Lu Cc: Kalle Valo Cc: Bryan Brattlof Fixes: 765976285a8c ("rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference") Cc: stable Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-13-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c @@ -466,11 +466,6 @@ static void _rtl_init_deferred_work(stru /* <2> work queue */ rtlpriv->works.hw = hw; rtlpriv->works.rtl_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s", 0, 0, rtlpriv->cfg->name); - if (unlikely(!rtlpriv->works.rtl_wq)) { - pr_err("Failed to allocate work queue\n"); - return; - } - INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rtlpriv->works.watchdog_wq, (void *)rtl_watchdog_wq_callback); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rtlpriv->works.ips_nic_off_wq,