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ath9k: do not return invalid pointers as a *dentry

Message ID 20190131131625.GC19807@kroah.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit cd98625b3e3fd53b92323f781c0a80c039c23fbb
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Series ath9k: do not return invalid pointers as a *dentry | expand

Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman Jan. 31, 2019, 1:16 p.m. UTC
When calling debugfs functions, they can now return error values if
something went wrong.  If that happens, return a NULL as a *dentry to
the relay core instead of passing it an illegal pointer.

The relay core should be able to handle an illegal pointer, but add this
check to be safe.

Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: QCA ath9k Development <ath9k-devel@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common-spectral.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Kalle Valo Feb. 7, 2019, 2:59 p.m. UTC | #1
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> When calling debugfs functions, they can now return error values if
> something went wrong.  If that happens, return a NULL as a *dentry to
> the relay core instead of passing it an illegal pointer.
> 
> The relay core should be able to handle an illegal pointer, but add this
> check to be safe.
> 
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: QCA ath9k Development <ath9k-devel@qca.qualcomm.com>
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

cd98625b3e3f ath9k: do not return invalid pointers as a *dentry
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common-spectral.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common-spectral.c
index 6aa3ec024ffa..21191955a7c1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common-spectral.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common-spectral.c
@@ -1039,6 +1039,9 @@  static struct dentry *create_buf_file_handler(const char *filename,
 
 	buf_file = debugfs_create_file(filename, mode, parent, buf,
 				       &relay_file_operations);
+	if (IS_ERR(buf_file))
+		return NULL;
+
 	*is_global = 1;
 	return buf_file;
 }