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From: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] rc80211-pid: add sanity check
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:05:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080126040534.005e6736@morte> (raw)

From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>

Add a sanity check in rate_control_pid_adjust_rate(). Thanks to Larry Finger
for suggesting this and reporting a related bug.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
NOT-Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-2.6.orig/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
+++ wireless-2.6/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ static void rate_control_pid_adjust_rate
 		}
 
 		newidx += back;
+
+		if (newidx < 0 || newidx >= sband->n_bitrates) {
+			WARN_ON(1);
+			break;
+		}
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS


-- 
Ciao
Stefano

             reply	other threads:[~2008-01-26  3:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-26  3:05 Stefano Brivio [this message]
2008-01-26  3:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] rc80211-pid: add sanity check Larry Finger
2008-01-26 11:19 ` Michael Buesch
2008-01-26 19:40   ` Lars
2008-01-27 12:42     ` Stefano Brivio
2008-01-27 13:22       ` mac80211 refcounting bug was: " Stefano Brivio
2008-01-27 14:32         ` Stefano Brivio
2008-01-27 13:53       ` Lars Ericsson
2008-01-27 16:56 ` Larry Finger
2008-01-27 18:51   ` Stefano Brivio

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