This reverts commit 765976285a8c8db3f0eb7f033829a899d0c2786e.
Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were correct or not.
Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a later kernel change.
This commit is not correct, it should not have used unlikely() and is not propagating the error properly to the calling function, so it should be reverted at this point in time. Also, if the check failed, the work queue was still assumed to be allocated, so further accesses would have continued to fail, meaning this patch does nothing to solve the root issues at all.
Cc: Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu Cc: Kalle Valo kvalo@codeaurora.org Cc: Bryan Brattlof hello@bryanbrattlof.com Fixes: 765976285a8c ("rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c index 2a7ee90a3f54..4136d7c63254 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c @@ -452,11 +452,6 @@ static void _rtl_init_deferred_work(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) /* <2> work queue */ rtlpriv->works.hw = hw; rtlpriv->works.rtl_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s", 0, 0, rtlpriv->cfg->name); - if (unlikely(!rtlpriv->works.rtl_wq)) { - pr_err("Failed to allocate work queue\n"); - return; - } - INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rtlpriv->works.watchdog_wq, rtl_watchdog_wq_callback); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rtlpriv->works.ips_nic_off_wq,