[PATCH v3 3/4] staging: rtl8723bs: fix NULL deref in c2h_wk_callback() on alloc failure
Yi Cong <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:18:55 +0800
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless,dev.linux.lists.linux-staging,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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From: Yi Cong <[email protected]> When the SDIO interrupt handler cannot allocate a c2h event buffer (GFP_ATOMIC under memory pressure) it pushes NULL onto c2h_queue as a "needs re-read" marker and wakes c2h_wk. In c2h_wk_callback(), if the re-allocation also fails, c2h_evt stays NULL and execution falls through to rtw_hal_c2h_valid(adapter, c2h_evt), whose underlying macro dereferences c2h_evt->id, causing a NULL pointer dereference panic. C2H interrupts are produced by firmware/network events at runtime, so this is reachable under memory pressure. Add a `continue` in the re-allocation failure branch to give up this event instead of dereferencing NULL. Fixes: 554c0a3abf21 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver") Assisted-by: GLM:5.2 Signed-off-by: Yi Cong <[email protected]> --- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c index b932670f5d63a..e9b1136dbf668 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c @@ -1716,7 +1716,8 @@ static void c2h_wk_callback(struct work_struct *work) kfree(c2h_evt); continue; } - } + } else + continue; } /* Special pointer to trigger c2h_evt_clear only */ -- 2.25.1