wl18xx: make sure fw_status->priv exists before deref

In some corner cases with specific timings, we might
try dequeueing tx before we got information about
the link status (e.g. due to recovery during tx).

Instead of NULL dereference, assume all
the links in this case have low priorities.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c
index 4422ecf0e726..edc3e4d8966d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c
@@ -1609,9 +1609,14 @@ static bool wl18xx_lnk_high_prio(struct wl1271 *wl, u8 hlid,
         u8 thold;
         struct wl18xx_fw_status_priv *status_priv =
                 (struct wl18xx_fw_status_priv *)wl->fw_status->priv;
-        u32 suspend_bitmap = le32_to_cpu(status_priv->link_suspend_bitmap);
+        u32 suspend_bitmap;
+
+        /* if we don't have the link map yet, assume they all low prio */
+        if (!status_priv)
+                return false;
 
         /* suspended links are never high priority */
+        suspend_bitmap = le32_to_cpu(status_priv->link_suspend_bitmap);
         if (test_bit(hlid, (unsigned long *)&suspend_bitmap))
                 return false;
 
@@ -1631,8 +1636,13 @@ static bool wl18xx_lnk_low_prio(struct wl1271 *wl, u8 hlid,
         u8 thold;
         struct wl18xx_fw_status_priv *status_priv =
                 (struct wl18xx_fw_status_priv *)wl->fw_status->priv;
-        u32 suspend_bitmap = le32_to_cpu(status_priv->link_suspend_bitmap);
+        u32 suspend_bitmap;
+
+        /* if we don't have the link map yet, assume they all low prio */
+        if (!status_priv)
+                return true;
 
+        suspend_bitmap = le32_to_cpu(status_priv->link_suspend_bitmap);
         if (test_bit(hlid, (unsigned long *)&suspend_bitmap))
                 thold = status_priv->tx_suspend_threshold;
         else if (test_bit(hlid, (unsigned long *)&wl->fw_fast_lnk_map) &&