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, -- Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>