[PATCH] ath10k: do not return invalid pointers as a *dentry

* [PATCH] ath10k: do not return invalid pointers as a *dentry
@ 2019-01-31 13:15 Greg Kroah-Hartman
  2019-02-07 14:55 ` Kalle Valo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2019-01-31 13:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kalle Valo; +Cc: ath10k, linux-wireless, netdev

When calling debugfs functions, they can now return error values if
something went wrong.  If that happens, return a NULL as a *dentry to
the relay core instead of passing it an illegal pointer.

The relay core should be able to handle an illegal pointer, but add this
check to be safe.

Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/spectral.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/spectral.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/spectral.c
index 653b6d013207..4a7fa3e4e99f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/spectral.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/spectral.c
@@ -494,6 +494,9 @@ static struct dentry *create_buf_file_handler(const char *filename,
 
 	buf_file = debugfs_create_file(filename, mode, parent, buf,
 				       &relay_file_operations);
+	if (IS_ERR(buf_file))
+		return NULL;
+
 	*is_global = 1;
 	return buf_file;
 }
-- 
2.20.1


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