From 55bd149978679742374c800e56e8f6bc74378bbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Huang Guobin <huangguobin4@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:30:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] net: wilc1000: clean up resource in error path of init mon
interface
Git-commit: 55bd149978679742374c800e56e8f6bc74378bbe
References: git-fixes
Patch-mainline: v5.10-rc1
The wilc_wfi_init_mon_int() forgets to clean up resource when
register_netdevice() failed. Add the missed call to fix it.
And the return value of netdev_priv can't be NULL, so remove
the unnecessary error handling.
Fixes: 588713006ea4 ("staging: wilc1000: avoid the use of 'wilc_wfi_mon' static variable")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Guobin <huangguobin4@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200917123019.206382-1-huangguobin4@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
---
drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_mon.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_mon.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_mon.c
@@ -237,11 +237,10 @@ struct net_device *wilc_wfi_init_mon_int
if (register_netdevice(wl->monitor_dev)) {
netdev_err(real_dev, "register_netdevice failed\n");
+ free_netdev(wl->monitor_dev);
return NULL;
}
priv = netdev_priv(wl->monitor_dev);
- if (!priv)
- return NULL;
priv->real_ndev = real_dev;