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Message-ID: <165892638117.11639.15108682372355290807.kvalo@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:53:02 +0000 (UTC)
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@...il.com>
Cc: Jes.Sorensen@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@...il.com>
Subject: Re: wifi: rtl8xxxu: Fix the error handling of the probe function
Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@...il.com> wrote:
> When the driver fails at ieee80211_alloc_hw() at the probe time, the
> driver will free the 'hw' which is not allocated, causing a bug.
>
> The following log can reveal it:
>
> [ 15.981294] BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in mutex_is_locked+0xe/0x40
> [ 15.981558] Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000001ab0 by task modprobe/373
> [ 15.982583] Call Trace:
> [ 15.984282] ieee80211_free_hw+0x22/0x390
> [ 15.984446] rtl8xxxu_probe+0x3a1/0xab30 [rtl8xxxu]
>
> Fix the bug by changing the order of the error handling.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@...il.com>
Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.
13876f2a087a wifi: rtl8xxxu: Fix the error handling of the probe function
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