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SubjectRe: wifi: rtl8xxxu: Fix the error handling of the probe function
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Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@gmail.com> wrote:

> When the driver fails at ieee80211_alloc_hw() at the probe time, the
> driver will free the 'hw' which is not allocated, causing a bug.
>
> The following log can reveal it:
>
> [ 15.981294] BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in mutex_is_locked+0xe/0x40
> [ 15.981558] Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000001ab0 by task modprobe/373
> [ 15.982583] Call Trace:
> [ 15.984282] ieee80211_free_hw+0x22/0x390
> [ 15.984446] rtl8xxxu_probe+0x3a1/0xab30 [rtl8xxxu]
>
> Fix the bug by changing the order of the error handling.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@gmail.com>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

13876f2a087a wifi: rtl8xxxu: Fix the error handling of the probe function

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20220716130444.2950690-1-zheyuma97@gmail.com/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

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