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| author | Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> | 2012-07-03 20:43:56 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-07-16 09:04:40 -0700 |
| commit | 445006de7c59a9086b00025f9c3c97c75effd3c5 (patch) | |
| tree | c7f4c6ed7a2225054fd262f741ba5460e1332268 /drivers/net/wireless | |
| parent | 4943d9cb7d82218d196ccc034ecaf933298e7e95 (diff) | |
mwifiex: fix wrong return values in add_virtual_intf() error cases
commit 858faa57dd9e2b91f3f870fbb1185982e42f5a2b upstream
add_virtual_intf() needs to return an ERR_PTR(), instead of NULL,
on errors, otherwise cfg80211 will crash.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c index 65050384c42..baf691949c3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c @@ -1214,11 +1214,11 @@ struct net_device *mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, void *mdev_priv; if (!priv) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); adapter = priv->adapter; if (!adapter) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); switch (type) { case NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED: @@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ struct net_device *mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, if (priv->bss_mode) { wiphy_err(wiphy, "cannot create multiple" " station/adhoc interfaces\n"); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } if (type == NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED) @@ -1244,14 +1244,15 @@ struct net_device *mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, break; default: wiphy_err(wiphy, "type not supported\n"); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } dev = alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof(struct mwifiex_private *), name, ether_setup, 1); if (!dev) { wiphy_err(wiphy, "no memory available for netdevice\n"); - goto error; + priv->bss_mode = NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } dev_net_set(dev, wiphy_net(wiphy)); @@ -1276,7 +1277,9 @@ struct net_device *mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, /* Register network device */ if (register_netdevice(dev)) { wiphy_err(wiphy, "cannot register virtual network device\n"); - goto error; + free_netdev(dev); + priv->bss_mode = NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED; + return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); } sema_init(&priv->async_sem, 1); @@ -1288,12 +1291,6 @@ struct net_device *mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, mwifiex_dev_debugfs_init(priv); #endif return dev; -error: - if (dev && (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERED)) - free_netdev(dev); - priv->bss_mode = NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED; - - return NULL; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mwifiex_add_virtual_intf); |