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authorPhil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>2012-03-26 09:01:30 +0000
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-05-11 13:14:20 +0100
commit24ac0fa638baec69f527eff78663a2f383014c90 (patch)
tree64f7bb547154b8f80fa7519b84f5c86b4296fb14 /drivers/net
parent873f40f17a6a7063af86befe4ffe4f70d98a1b1b (diff)
wimax: i2400m - prevent a possible kernel bug due to missing fw_name string
[ Upstream commit 4eee6a3a04e8bb53fbe7de0f64d0524d3fbe3f80 ] This happened on a machine with a custom hotplug script calling nameif, probably due to slow firmware loading. At the time nameif uses ethtool to gather interface information, i2400m->fw_name is zero and so a null pointer dereference occurs from within i2400m_get_drvinfo(). Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
index 64a110604ad..4697cf3d5cb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
@@ -607,7 +607,8 @@ static void i2400m_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *net_dev,
struct i2400m *i2400m = net_dev_to_i2400m(net_dev);
strncpy(info->driver, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(info->driver) - 1);
- strncpy(info->fw_version, i2400m->fw_name, sizeof(info->fw_version) - 1);
+ strncpy(info->fw_version,
+ i2400m->fw_name ? : "", sizeof(info->fw_version) - 1);
if (net_dev->dev.parent)
strncpy(info->bus_info, dev_name(net_dev->dev.parent),
sizeof(info->bus_info) - 1);