Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware

From: Jeff Johnson
Date: Tue Jun 17 2025 - 19:33:25 EST



On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:12:05 +0300, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> Syzkaller reports [1, 2] crashes caused by an attempts to ping
> the device which has failed to load firmware. Since such a device
> doesn't pass 'ieee80211_register_hw()', an internal workqueue
> managed by 'ieee80211_queue_work()' is not yet created and an
> attempt to queue work on it causes null-ptr-deref.
>
> [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9a4aec827829942045ff
> [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0d8afba53e8fb2633217
>
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware
commit: 15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870

Best regards,
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Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>