[053/272] mac80211: fix a crash in ieee80211_beacon_get_tim on change_interface

Greg KH
2011-02-16T00:19:32Z

From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>

commit eb3e554b4b3a56386ef5214dbe0e3935a350178b upstream.

Some drivers (e.g. ath9k) do not always disable beacons when they're
supposed to. When an interface is changed using the change_interface op,
the mode specific sdata part is in an undefined state and trying to
get a beacon at this point can produce weird crashes.

To fix this, add a check for ieee80211_sdata_running before using
anything from the sdata.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
net/mac80211/tx.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -2207,6 +2207,9 @@ struct sk_buff *ieee80211_beacon_get_tim

sdata = vif_to_sdata(vif);

+ if (!ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata))
+ goto out;
+
if (tim_offset)
*tim_offset = 0;
if (tim_length)