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SubjectRe: [PATCH][next] wil6210: fix wil_cid_valid with negative cid values
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Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:

> There are several occasions where a negative cid value is passed
> into wil_cid_valid and this is converted into a u8 causing the
> range check of cid >= 0 to always succeed. Fix this by making
> the cid argument an int to handle any -ve error value of cid.
>
> An example of this behaviour is in wil_cfg80211_dump_station,
> where cid is assigned -ENOENT if the call to wil_find_cid_by_idx
> fails, and this -ve value is passed to wil_cid_valid. I believe
> that the conversion of -ENOENT to the u8 value 254 which is
> greater than wil->max_assoc_sta causes wil_find_cid_by_idx to
> currently work fine, but I think is by luck and not the
> intended behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> Reviewed-by: Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

23bb9f692b66 wil6210: fix wil_cid_valid with negative cid values

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11027989/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

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