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authorArik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>2012-07-09 19:57:28 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-07-12 12:10:42 +0200
commitd811b3d5566f1441b321a1219c260124b209e0bd (patch)
tree86cd54ea8eaeb899d56496bd1f4d6b04a8ff38bb
parentfd0142844efa85d89017c89227a0f03de1eee327 (diff)
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mac80211: fix invalid band deref building preq IEs
The function building probe-request IEs does not validate the band is supported before dereferencing it. This can result in a panic when all bands are traversed, as done during sched-scan start. Warn when this happens and return an empty probe request. Also fix sched-scan to not waste memory on unsupported bands. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/scan.c3
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/util.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
index 379f178eab5f..1ff04f689d1f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -928,6 +928,9 @@ int ieee80211_request_sched_scan_start(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
}
for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; i++) {
+ if (!local->hw.wiphy->bands[i])
+ continue;
+
local->sched_scan_ies.ie[i] = kzalloc(2 +
IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN +
local->scan_ies_len +
diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index 64493a7bef1a..596db0c2a113 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -999,6 +999,8 @@ int ieee80211_build_preq_ies(struct ieee80211_local *local, u8 *buffer,
int ext_rates_len;
sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[band];
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!sband))
+ return 0;
pos = buffer;
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