Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:39:39 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [patch 51/87] mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when finding max_rates in PID and minstrel |
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2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
commit 621ad7c96aa138cfeab53cd4debc5a4e08b2189b upstream.
"There is another problem with this piece of code. The sband will be NULL after second iteration on single band device and cause null pointer dereference. Everything is working with dual band card. Sorry, but i don't know how to explain this clearly in English. I have looked on the second patch for pid algorithm and found similar bug."
Reported-by: Karol Szuster <qflon@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c | 2 +- net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ minstrel_alloc_sta(void *priv, struct ie for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; i++) { sband = hw->wiphy->bands[i]; - if (sband->n_bitrates > max_rates) + if (sband && sband->n_bitrates > max_rates) max_rates = sband->n_bitrates; } --- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static void *rate_control_pid_alloc(stru for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; i++) { sband = hw->wiphy->bands[i]; - if (sband->n_bitrates > max_rates) + if (sband && sband->n_bitrates > max_rates) max_rates = sband->n_bitrates; }
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