Commit cc0b6fe8 authored Mar 20, 2009 by Luis R. Rodriguez Committed by John W. Linville Mar 27, 2009

cfg80211: fix incorrect assumption on last_request for 11d



The incorrect assumption is the last regulatory request
(last_request) is always a country IE when processing
country IEs. Although this is true 99% of the time the
first time this happens this could not be true.

This fixes an oops in the branch check for the last_request
when accessing drv_last_ie. The access was done under the
assumption the struct won't be null.

Note to stable: to port to 29 replace as follows, only 29 has
country IE code:

s|NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE|REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Quentin Armitage <Quentin@armitage.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 2e097dc6

net/wireless/reg.c

+7 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1601,6 +1601,10 @@ static bool reg_same_country_ie_hint(struct wiphy *wiphy,

		assert_cfg80211_lock();

		if (unlikely(last_request->initiator !=
		NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE))
		return false;

		request_wiphy = wiphy_idx_to_wiphy(last_request->wiphy_idx);

		if (!request_wiphy)
		@@ -1663,7 +1667,9 @@ void regulatory_hint_11d(struct wiphy *wiphy,
		* we optimize an early check to exit out early if we don't have to
		* do anything
		*/
		if (likely(wiphy_idx_valid(last_request->wiphy_idx))) {
		if (likely(last_request->initiator ==
		NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_COUNTRY_IE &&
		wiphy_idx_valid(last_request->wiphy_idx))) {
		struct cfg80211_registered_device *drv_last_ie;

		drv_last_ie =

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