Commit 9a8a6d14 authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman Committed by Yang Yingliang
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Revert "rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"

stable inclusion
from linux-4.19.192
commit ff867789b504162c982b99d463b77d4320fe478d

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commit 68c5634c upstream.

This reverts commit 76597628.

Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all
commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were
correct or not.

Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons
below, so it must be reverted.  It will be fixed up "correctly" in a
later kernel change.

This commit is not correct, it should not have used unlikely() and is
not propagating the error properly to the calling function, so it should
be reverted at this point in time.  Also, if the check failed, the
work queue was still assumed to be allocated, so further accesses would
have continued to fail, meaning this patch does nothing to solve the
root issues at all.

Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Bryan Brattlof <hello@bryanbrattlof.com>
Fixes: 76597628 ("rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-13-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
parent 71413de1
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