This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

libertas: check return value of alloc_workqueue

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: libertas-check-return-value-of-alloc_workqueue.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:40:23 CET 2018

From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 21:19:38 +0800 Subject: libertas: check return value of alloc_workqueue

From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com

[ Upstream commit dc3f89c38a8406554ffeffa370aad086a9c5e9de ]

Function alloc_workqueue() will return a NULL pointer if there is no enough memory, and its return value should be validated before using. However, in function if_spi_probe(), its return value is not checked. This may result in a NULL dereference bug. This patch fixes the bug.

Signed-off-by: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo kvalo@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_spi.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_spi.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_spi.c @@ -1181,6 +1181,10 @@ static int if_spi_probe(struct spi_devic

/* Initialize interrupt handling stuff. */ card->workqueue = alloc_workqueue("libertas_spi", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); + if (!card->workqueue) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto remove_card; + } INIT_WORK(&card->packet_work, if_spi_host_to_card_worker); INIT_WORK(&card->resume_work, if_spi_resume_worker);

@@ -1209,6 +1213,7 @@ release_irq: free_irq(spi->irq, card); terminate_workqueue: destroy_workqueue(card->workqueue); +remove_card: lbs_remove_card(priv); /* will call free_netdev */ free_card: free_if_spi_card(card);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@163.com are

queue-4.9/tipc-check-return-value-of-nlmsg_new.patch queue-4.9/mt7601u-check-return-value-of-alloc_skb.patch queue-4.9/rndis_wlan-add-return-value-validation.patch queue-4.9/libertas-check-return-value-of-alloc_workqueue.patch queue-4.9/staging-wilc1000-fix-unchecked-return-value.patch queue-4.9/qlcnic-fix-unchecked-return-value.patch queue-4.9/wan-pc300too-abort-path-on-failure.patch queue-4.9/power-supply-isp1704-fix-unchecked-return-value-of-devm_kzalloc.patch