Commit 265698d7 authored Sep 18, 2017 by Johannes Berg

nl80211: fix null-ptr dereference on invalid mesh configuration



If TX rates are specified during mesh join, the channel must
also be specified. Check the channel pointer to avoid a null
pointer dereference if it isn't.

Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Fixes: 8564e382 ("cfg80211: add checks for beacon rate, extend to mesh")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent e785fa0a

net/wireless/nl80211.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -9987,6 +9987,9 @@ static int nl80211_join_mesh(struct sk_buff skb, struct genl_info info)
		if (err)
		return err;

		if (!setup.chandef.chan)
		return -EINVAL;

		err = validate_beacon_tx_rate(rdev, setup.chandef.chan->band,
		&setup.beacon_rate);
		if (err)

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