From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: pull request: wireless-2.6 2009-03-20
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:29:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090320202934.GA3263@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
Dave,
One last(?) straggler for 2.6.29 -- avoid a NULL function pointer
dereference when processing certain nl80211 messages...
Please let me know if there are problems!
Thanks,
John
---
Individual patch is available here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/
---
The following changes since commit 170ebf85160dd128e1c4206cc197cce7d1424705:
Tilman Schmidt (1):
bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git master
Jouni Malinen (1):
nl80211: Check that function pointer != NULL before using it
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 1e728ff..31b807a 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -1908,6 +1908,11 @@ static int nl80211_get_mesh_params(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (err)
return err;
+ if (!drv->ops->get_mesh_params) {
+ err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
/* Get the mesh params */
rtnl_lock();
err = drv->ops->get_mesh_params(&drv->wiphy, dev, &cur_params);
@@ -2017,6 +2022,11 @@ static int nl80211_set_mesh_params(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (err)
return err;
+ if (!drv->ops->set_mesh_params) {
+ err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
/* This makes sure that there aren't more than 32 mesh config
* parameters (otherwise our bitfield scheme would not work.) */
BUILD_BUG_ON(NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_MAX > 32);
@@ -2061,6 +2071,7 @@ static int nl80211_set_mesh_params(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
err = drv->ops->set_mesh_params(&drv->wiphy, dev, &cfg, mask);
rtnl_unlock();
+ out:
/* cleanup */
cfg80211_put_dev(drv);
dev_put(dev);
--
John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
next reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-20 20:29 John W. Linville [this message]
2009-03-20 21:53 ` pull request: wireless-2.6 2009-03-20 David Miller
2009-03-20 21:53 ` David Miller
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