[PATCH] fjes: Handle workqueue allocation failure

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Feb 19 19:16:43 UTC 2021


From: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

In the highly unlikely event that we fail to allocate either of the
"/txrx" or "/control" workqueues, we should bail cleanly rather than
blindly march on with NULL queue pointer(s) installed in the
'fjes_adapter' instance.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Reported-by: Nicolas Waisman <nico at semmle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CADJ_3a8WFrs5NouXNqS5WYe7rebFP+_A5CheeqAyD_p7DFJJcg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
CVE-2019-16231
[backported from 85ac30fa2e24f628e9f4f9344460f4015d33fd7d]
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c b/drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c
index d8fcdc2414d8..f22dc23f8548 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c
@@ -1119,7 +1119,16 @@ static int fjes_probe(struct platform_device *plat_dev)
 	adapter->open_guard = false;
 
 	adapter->txrx_wq = create_workqueue(DRV_NAME "/txrx");
+	if (unlikely(!adapter->txrx_wq)) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_free_netdev;
+	}
+
 	adapter->control_wq = create_workqueue(DRV_NAME "/control");
+	if (unlikely(!adapter->control_wq)) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_free_txrx_wq;
+	}
 
 	INIT_WORK(&adapter->tx_stall_task, fjes_tx_stall_task);
 	INIT_WORK(&adapter->raise_intr_rxdata_task,
@@ -1136,7 +1145,7 @@ static int fjes_probe(struct platform_device *plat_dev)
 	hw->hw_res.irq = platform_get_irq(plat_dev, 0);
 	err = fjes_hw_init(&adapter->hw);
 	if (err)
-		goto err_free_netdev;
+		goto err_free_control_wq;
 
 	/* setup MAC address (02:00:00:00:00:[epid])*/
 	netdev->dev_addr[0] = 2;
@@ -1156,6 +1165,10 @@ static int fjes_probe(struct platform_device *plat_dev)
 
 err_hw_exit:
 	fjes_hw_exit(&adapter->hw);
+err_free_control_wq:
+	destroy_workqueue(adapter->control_wq);
+err_free_txrx_wq:
+	destroy_workqueue(adapter->txrx_wq);
 err_free_netdev:
 	free_netdev(netdev);
 err_out:
-- 
2.17.1




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