mwifiex: fix adapter pointer dereference issue
authorAmitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:18:15 +0000 (17:18 -0700)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Thu, 1 Aug 2013 19:34:35 +0000 (15:34 -0400)
It has introduced by recent commit 6b41f941d7cd: "mwifiex:
handle driver initialization error paths" which adds error
path handling for mwifiex_fw_dpc().

release_firmware(adapter->*) is called for success as well
as failure paths. In failure paths, adapter is already freed
at this point.

The issue is fixed by moving mwifiex_free_adapter() call.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c

index 5644c7f..3402bff 100644 (file)
@@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ static void mwifiex_fw_dpc(const struct firmware *firmware, void *context)
        struct mwifiex_private *priv;
        struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter = context;
        struct mwifiex_fw_image fw;
+       struct semaphore *sem = adapter->card_sem;
+       bool init_failed = false;
 
        if (!firmware) {
                dev_err(adapter->dev,
@@ -528,15 +530,20 @@ err_dnld_fw:
        }
        adapter->surprise_removed = true;
        mwifiex_terminate_workqueue(adapter);
-       mwifiex_free_adapter(adapter);
+       init_failed = true;
 done:
        if (adapter->cal_data) {
                release_firmware(adapter->cal_data);
                adapter->cal_data = NULL;
        }
-       release_firmware(adapter->firmware);
+       if (adapter->firmware) {
+               release_firmware(adapter->firmware);
+               adapter->firmware = NULL;
+       }
        complete(&adapter->fw_load);
-       up(adapter->card_sem);
+       if (init_failed)
+               mwifiex_free_adapter(adapter);
+       up(sem);
        return;
 }