Patch "Staging: wilc1000: Fix kernel Oops on opening the device" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

Staging: wilc1000: Fix kernel Oops on opening the device

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
staging-wilc1000-fix-kernel-oops-on-opening-the-device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Aditya Shankar <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 09:45:03 +0530
Subject: Staging: wilc1000: Fix kernel Oops on opening the device

From: Aditya Shankar <[email protected]>

commit 1d4f1d53e1e2d5e38f4d3ca3bf60f8be5025540f upstream.

Commit 2518ac59eb27 ("staging: wilc1000: Replace kthread with workqueue for host interface") adds an unconditional destroy_workqueue() on the wilc's "hif_workqueue" soon after its creation thereby rendering it unusable. It then further attempts to queue work onto this non-existing hif_worqueue and results in:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010
pgd = de478000
[00000010] *pgd=3eec0831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] ARM
Modules linked in: wilc1000_sdio(C) wilc1000(C)
CPU: 0 PID: 825 Comm: ifconfig Tainted: G         C      4.8.0-rc8+ #37
Hardware name: Atmel SAMA5
task: df56f800 task.stack: deeb0000
PC is at __queue_work+0x90/0x284
LR is at __queue_work+0x58/0x284
pc : [<c0126bb0>]    lr : [<c0126b78>]    psr: 600f0093

sp : deeb1aa0 ip : def22d78 fp : deea6000
r10: 00000000 r9 : c0a08150 r8 : c0a2f058
r7 : 00000001 r6 : dee9b600 r5 : def22d74 r4 : 00000000
r3 : 00000000 r2 : def22d74 r1 : 07ffffff r0 : 00000000
Flags: nZCv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
...
[<c0127060>] (__queue_work) from [<c0127298>] (queue_work_on+0x34/0x40)
[<c0127298>] (queue_work_on) from [<bf0076b4>] (wilc_enqueue_cmd+0x54/0x64 [wilc1000]) [<bf0076b4>] (wilc_enqueue_cmd [wilc1000]) from [<bf0082b4>] (wilc_set_wfi_drv_handler+0x48/0x70 [wilc1000]) [<bf0082b4>] (wilc_set_wfi_drv_handler [wilc1000]) from [<bf00509c>] (wilc_mac_open+0x214/0x250 [wilc1000]) [<bf00509c>] (wilc_mac_open [wilc1000]) from [<c04fde98>] (__dev_open+0xb8/0x11c) [<c04fde98>] (__dev_open) from [<c04fe128>] (__dev_change_flags+0x94/0x158)
[<c04fe128>] (__dev_change_flags) from [<c04fe204>] (dev_change_flags+0x18/0x48) [<c04fe204>] (dev_change_flags) from [<c0557d5c>] (devinet_ioctl+0x6b4/0x788)
[<c0557d5c>] (devinet_ioctl) from [<c04e40a0>] (sock_ioctl+0x154/0x2cc)
[<c04e40a0>] (sock_ioctl) from [<c01b16e0>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x9c/0x878)
[<c01b16e0>] (do_vfs_ioctl) from [<c01b1ef0>] (SyS_ioctl+0x34/0x5c)
[<c01b1ef0>] (SyS_ioctl) from [<c0107520>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c)

Code: e5932004 e1520006 01a04003 0affffff (e5943010)
---[ end trace b612328adaa6bf20 ]---

This fix removes the unnecessary call to destroy_workqueue() while opening the device to avoid the above kernel panic. The deinit routine already does a good job of terminating the workqueue when no longer needed.

---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

@@ -3391,7 +3391,6 @@ int wilc_init(struct net_device *dev, st
 
 	clients_count++;
 
-	destroy_workqueue(hif_workqueue);
 _fail_:
 	return result;
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/staging-wilc1000-fix-kernel-oops-on-opening-the-device.patch