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authorKangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>2019-03-12 02:56:33 -0500
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>2019-04-04 13:24:53 +0300
commit765976285a8c8db3f0eb7f033829a899d0c2786e (patch)
tree92c091b8f99736cea26ea93864d7406b8fa8b503 /drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
parent2cd2b42439ea7d1231b6b3f0eb0fe606f2ba5160 (diff)
rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
In case alloc_workqueue fails, the fix reports the error and returns to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
index 217d2a7a43c7..ac746c322554 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
@@ -448,6 +448,11 @@ static void _rtl_init_deferred_work(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
/* <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,