Patch "cfg80211: check dev_set_name() return value" 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

cfg80211: check dev_set_name() return value

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:

     cfg80211-check-dev_set_name-return-value.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: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:58:27 +0100
Subject: cfg80211: check dev_set_name() return value

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>

commit 59b179b48ce2a6076448a44531242ac2b3f6cef2 upstream.

syzbot reported a warning from rfkill_alloc(), and after a while I think that the reason is that it was doing fault injection and the dev_set_name() failed, leaving the name NULL, and we didn't check the return value and got to rfkill_alloc() with a NULL name. Since we really don't want a NULL name, we ought to check the return value.

---
 net/wireless/core.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ struct wiphy *wiphy_new_nm(const struct
 		if (rv)
 			goto use_default_name;
 	} else {
+		int rv;
+
 use_default_name:
 		/* NOTE:  This is *probably* safe w/out holding rtnl because of
 		 * the restrictions on phy names.  Probably this call could

@@ -397,7 +399,11 @@ use_default_name:
 		 * phyX.  But, might should add some locking and check return
 		 * value, and use a different name if this one exists?
 		 */
-		dev_set_name(&rdev->wiphy.dev, PHY_NAME "%d", rdev->wiphy_idx);
+		rv = dev_set_name(&rdev->wiphy.dev, PHY_NAME "%d", rdev->wiphy_idx);
+		if (rv < 0) {
+			kfree(rdev);
+			return NULL;
+		}
 	}
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rdev->wdev_list);

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

queue-4.4/cfg80211-check-dev_set_name-return-value.patch