Patch "ath9k: fix NULL pointer dereference" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

ath9k: fix NULL pointer dereference

to the 4.4-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:
ath9k-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Miaoqing Pan <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:23:08 +0800
Subject: ath9k: fix NULL pointer dereference

From: Miaoqing Pan <[email protected]>

commit 40bea976c72b9ee60f8d097852deb53ccbeaffbe upstream.

relay_open() may return NULL, check the return value to avoid the crash.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040
IP: [<ffffffffa01a95c5>] ath_cmn_process_fft+0xd5/0x700 [ath9k_common]
PGD 41cf28067 PUD 41be92067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.8.6+ #35
Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard h8-1080t/2A86, BIOS 6.15    07/04/2011
task: ffffffff81e0c4c0 task.stack: ffffffff81e00000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa01a95c5>] [<ffffffffa01a95c5>] ath_cmn_process_fft+0xd5/0x700 [ath9k_common]
RSP: 0018:ffff88041f203ca0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000059f RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: ffffffff81f0ca98
RBP: ffff88041f203dc8 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 00000000000000ff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffffff81f0ca98 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88041f200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 000000041b6ec000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Stack:

0000000000000363 00000000000003f3 00000000000003f3 00000000000001f9 000000000000049a 0000000001252c04 ffff88041f203e44 ffff880417b4bfd0 0000000000000008 ffff88041785b9c0 0000000000000002 ffff88041613dc60

Call Trace:
<IRQ>
[<ffffffffa01b6441>] ath9k_tasklet+0x1b1/0x220 [ath9k]
[<ffffffff8105d8dd>] tasklet_action+0x4d/0xf0
[<ffffffff8105dde2>] __do_softirq+0x92/0x2a0

---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common-spectral.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -528,6 +528,9 @@ int ath_cmn_process_fft(struct ath_spec_
 	if (!(radar_info->pulse_bw_info & SPECTRAL_SCAN_BITMASK))
 		return 0;
 
+	if (!spec_priv->rfs_chan_spec_scan)
+		return 1;
+
 	/* Output buffers are full, no need to process anything
 	 * since there is no space to put the result anyway
 	 */

@@ -1072,7 +1075,7 @@ static struct rchan_callbacks rfs_spec_s
 
 void ath9k_cmn_spectral_deinit_debug(struct ath_spec_scan_priv *spec_priv)
 {
-	if (config_enabled(CONFIG_ATH9K_DEBUGFS)) {
+	if (config_enabled(CONFIG_ATH9K_DEBUGFS) && spec_priv->rfs_chan_spec_scan) {
 		relay_close(spec_priv->rfs_chan_spec_scan);
 		spec_priv->rfs_chan_spec_scan = NULL;
 	}

@@ -1086,6 +1089,9 @@ void ath9k_cmn_spectral_init_debug(struc
 					    debugfs_phy,
 					    1024, 256, &rfs_spec_scan_cb,
 					    NULL);
+	if (!spec_priv->rfs_chan_spec_scan)
+		return;
+
 	debugfs_create_file("spectral_scan_ctl",
 			    S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR,
 			    debugfs_phy, spec_priv,

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

queue-4.4/ath9k-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch