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

rapidio: handle create_workqueue() failure

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From 69ce3ae36dcb03cdf416b0862a45369ddbf50fdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Anirudh Rayabharam mail@anirudhrb.com Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 13:57:12 +0200 Subject: rapidio: handle create_workqueue() failure

In case create_workqueue() fails, release all resources and return -ENOMEM to caller to avoid potential NULL pointer deref later. Move up the create_workequeue() call to return early and avoid unwinding the call to riocm_rx_fill().

Cc: Alexandre Bounine alex.bou9@gmail.com Cc: Matt Porter mporter@kernel.crashing.org Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Anirudh Rayabharam mail@anirudhrb.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-46-gregkh@linuxfoundation.o... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c b/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c index e6c16f04f2b4..db4c265287ae 100644 --- a/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c +++ b/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c @@ -2127,6 +2127,14 @@ static int riocm_add_mport(struct device *dev, return -ENODEV; }

+ cm->rx_wq = create_workqueue(DRV_NAME "/rxq"); + if (!cm->rx_wq) { + rio_release_inb_mbox(mport, cmbox); + rio_release_outb_mbox(mport, cmbox); + kfree(cm); + return -ENOMEM; + } + /* * Allocate and register inbound messaging buffers to be ready * to receive channel and system management requests @@ -2137,7 +2145,6 @@ static int riocm_add_mport(struct device *dev, cm->rx_slots = RIOCM_RX_RING_SIZE; mutex_init(&cm->rx_lock); riocm_rx_fill(cm, RIOCM_RX_RING_SIZE); - cm->rx_wq = create_workqueue(DRV_NAME "/rxq"); INIT_WORK(&cm->rx_work, rio_ibmsg_handler);

cm->tx_slot = 0;