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Message-ID: <20251218011414.1781294-5-samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:14:14 -0800
From: Samasth Norway Ananda <samasth.norway.ananda@...cle.com>
To: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] staging: rtl8723bs: check return value of rtw_wdev_alloc()

Add missing error check for rtw_wdev_alloc() in rtw_sdio_if1_init().

rtw_wdev_alloc() can fail with -ENOMEM when wiphy_new() or rtw_zmalloc()
fails, or with other negative error codes when wiphy_register() fails.
Without checking the return value, initialization continues even when
wireless device allocation fails, potentially leaving the adapter in an
inconsistent state.

Jump to the error cleanup path when rtw_wdev_alloc() fails to ensure
proper resource cleanup and prevent use of an incompletely initialized
adapter.

Signed-off-by: Samasth Norway Ananda <samasth.norway.ananda@...cle.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c
index 1d0239eef114..432bc6aa1d90 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c
@@ -296,7 +296,8 @@ static struct adapter *rtw_sdio_if1_init(struct dvobj_priv *dvobj, const struct
 	if (rtw_init_drv_sw(padapter) == _FAIL)
 		goto free_hal_data;
 
-	rtw_wdev_alloc(padapter, dvobj_to_dev(dvobj));
+	if (rtw_wdev_alloc(padapter, dvobj_to_dev(dvobj)))
+		goto free_hal_data;
 
 	/* 3 8. get WLan MAC address */
 	/*  set mac addr */
-- 
2.50.1


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