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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: validate SIOCSIWPOWER arguments better
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:12:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231261955.3654.0.camel@johannes> (raw)

Don't accept any arguments we don't handle, and return error codes
instead of using an uninitialised stack value.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
---
 net/mac80211/wext.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/wext.c	2009-01-06 18:10:07.000000000 +0100
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/wext.c	2009-01-06 18:10:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -852,9 +852,12 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_siwpower(stru
 		ps = true;
 		break;
 	default:                /* Otherwise we ignore */
-		break;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (wrq->flags & ~(IW_POWER_MODE | IW_POWER_TIMEOUT))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (wrq->flags & IW_POWER_TIMEOUT)
 		timeout = wrq->value / 1000;
 



             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-06 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-06 17:12 Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-01-07 14:51 ` [PATCH] mac80211: validate SIOCSIWPOWER arguments better Kalle Valo

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