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[ Upstream commit 12d47f0ea5e0aa63f19ba618da55a7c67850ca10 ] Fix a kernel panic by checking that the sta is not NULL. This could happen during a reconfig flow, as mac80211 moves the sta between all the states without really checking if the previous state was successfully set. So, if for some reason we failed to add back the station, subsequent calls to sta_state() callback will be done when the station is NULL. This would result in a following panic: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 IP: iwl_mvm_cfg_he_sta+0xfc/0x690 [iwlmvm] [..] Call Trace: iwl_mvm_mac_sta_state+0x629/0x6f0 [iwlmvm] drv_sta_state+0xf4/0x950 [mac80211] ieee80211_reconfig+0xa12/0x2180 [mac80211] ieee80211_restart_work+0xbb/0xe0 [mac80211] process_one_work+0x1e2/0x610 worker_thread+0x4d/0x3e0 [..] Signed-off-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.