From eb32cfcdef2305dc0e44a65d42801315669bb27e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:06:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] net: qlogic: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
In case create_singlethread_workqueue fails, the fix returns
-ENOMEM to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c
index 10b075bc59596..b61b88cbc0c7d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c
@@ -3886,6 +3886,12 @@ static int ql3xxx_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
netif_stop_queue(ndev);
qdev->workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue(ndev->name);
+ if (!qdev->workqueue) {
+ unregister_netdev(ndev);
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_out_iounmap;
+ }
+
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&qdev->reset_work, ql_reset_work);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&qdev->tx_timeout_work, ql_tx_timeout_work);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&qdev->link_state_work, ql_link_state_machine_work);
--
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