Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2016-04-07

Re: [PATCH RESEND] mwifiex: fix NULL pointer dereference error

From: Sedat Dilek <hidden>
Date: 2016-03-30 10:26:40
Also in: lkml

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Wei-Ning Huang [off-list ref] wrote:
In mwifiex_enable_hs, we need to check if
priv->wdev.wiphy->wowlan_config is NULL before accessing it's member.
it's... its member (not it's) :-).

- Sedat -
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
This sometimes cause kernel panic when suspend/resume.

Signed-off-by: Wei-Ning Huang <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
index d5c56eb..d8de432 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -509,7 +509,8 @@ int mwifiex_enable_hs(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)

        if (priv && priv->sched_scanning) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
-               if (!priv->wdev.wiphy->wowlan_config->nd_config) {
+               if (priv->wdev.wiphy->wowlan_config &&
+                   !priv->wdev.wiphy->wowlan_config->nd_config) {
 #endif
                        mwifiex_dbg(adapter, CMD, "aborting bgscan!\n");
                        mwifiex_stop_bg_scan(priv);
--
2.1.2

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