releases/5.1.6/net-cw1200-fix-a-null-pointer-dereference.patch

From f6a707101f56439baf186140e585c1af77561ab3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 03:05:02 -0500
Subject: net: cw1200: fix a NULL pointer dereference

[ Upstream commit 0ed2a005347400500a39ea7c7318f1fea57fb3ca ]

In case create_singlethread_workqueue fails, the fix free the
hardware and returns NULL to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c
index 90dc979f260b6..c1608f0bf6d01 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/main.c
@@ -345,6 +345,11 @@ static struct ieee80211_hw *cw1200_init_common(const u8 *macaddr,
 	mutex_init(&priv->wsm_cmd_mux);
 	mutex_init(&priv->conf_mutex);
 	priv->workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue("cw1200_wq");
+	if (!priv->workqueue) {
+		ieee80211_free_hw(hw);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	sema_init(&priv->scan.lock, 1);
 	INIT_WORK(&priv->scan.work, cw1200_scan_work);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&priv->scan.probe_work, cw1200_probe_work);
-- 
2.20.1