rt2x00: fix a possible NULL pointer dereference
authorGabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:44:59 +0000 (20:44 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:45:25 +0000 (14:45 -0500)
The 'rt2x00lib_probe_dev' function tries to
allocate the workqueue. If the allocation
fails, 'rt2x00_lib_remove_dev' is called on
the error path. Because 'rt2x00dev->workqueue'
is NULL in this case, the 'destroy_workqueue'
call will cause a NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c

index c3e1aa7c1a8057b7eb19270f8aacb3f718b86577..d2a1ea98d0f23a144653ed7fceefeb62a2191e75 100644 (file)
@@ -1220,7 +1220,8 @@ void rt2x00lib_remove_dev(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
                cancel_work_sync(&rt2x00dev->rxdone_work);
                cancel_work_sync(&rt2x00dev->txdone_work);
        }
-       destroy_workqueue(rt2x00dev->workqueue);
+       if (rt2x00dev->workqueue)
+               destroy_workqueue(rt2x00dev->workqueue);
 
        /*
         * Free the tx status fifo.