netdev - [PATCH] net: qlge: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 01:53:15 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
        GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: qlge: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

In case alloc_ordered_workqueue fails, the fix returns
-ENOMEM to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
index 096515c27263..07e1c623048e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
@@ -4681,6 +4681,11 @@ static int ql_init_device(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct net_device *ndev,
 	 */
 	qdev->workqueue = alloc_ordered_workqueue("%s", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM,
 						  ndev->name);
+	if (!qdev->workqueue) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_out2;
+	}
+
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&qdev->asic_reset_work, ql_asic_reset_work);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&qdev->mpi_reset_work, ql_mpi_reset_work);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&qdev->mpi_work, ql_mpi_work);
-- 
2.17.1