patch "rapidio: handle create_workqueue() failure" added to char-misc-linus

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

rapidio: handle create_workqueue() failure

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From 69ce3ae36dcb03cdf416b0862a45369ddbf50fdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anirudh Rayabharam <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 13:57:12 +0200
Subject: rapidio: handle create_workqueue() failure

In case create_workqueue() fails, release all resources and return -ENOMEM to caller to avoid potential NULL pointer deref later. Move up the create_workequeue() call to return early and avoid unwinding the call to riocm_rx_fill().

---
 drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

index e6c16f04f2b4..db4c265287ae 100644
@@ -2127,6 +2127,14 @@ static int riocm_add_mport(struct device *dev,
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
+	cm->rx_wq = create_workqueue(DRV_NAME "/rxq");
+	if (!cm->rx_wq) {
+		rio_release_inb_mbox(mport, cmbox);
+		rio_release_outb_mbox(mport, cmbox);
+		kfree(cm);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Allocate and register inbound messaging buffers to be ready
 	 * to receive channel and system management requests

@@ -2137,7 +2145,6 @@ static int riocm_add_mport(struct device *dev,
 	cm->rx_slots = RIOCM_RX_RING_SIZE;
 	mutex_init(&cm->rx_lock);
 	riocm_rx_fill(cm, RIOCM_RX_RING_SIZE);
-	cm->rx_wq = create_workqueue(DRV_NAME "/rxq");
 	INIT_WORK(&cm->rx_work, rio_ibmsg_handler);
 
 	cm->tx_slot = 0;

2.31.1