ACK: [SRU][X][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2019-16232

Guilherme Piccoli gpiccoli at canonical.com
Fri Mar 12 17:31:55 UTC 2021


On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:59 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> CVE-2019-16232
>
> [Impact]
> NULL pointer dereference on alloc_workqueue() failure
>
> [Test Plan]
> No test plan
>
> [Where problems could occur]
> Almost clean backport with two differences:
>  * path change from upstreamL
>    drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_sdio.c
>    to
>    drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c
>
>  * v4.4 code uses create_workqueue which is a wrapper for alloc_workqueue
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>
>
> Allen Pais (1):
>   libertas: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
>
>  drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_sdio.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> --

Thanks Krzysztof, simple fix and the backport makes sense and is
well-explained. So,

Acked-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at canonical.com>



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