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authorTim Harvey <harvey.tim@gmail.com>2010-12-09 10:43:13 -0800
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-12-13 14:53:46 -0500
commitc926d006c1514cfb3572893f41f2324e96823661 (patch)
treeb76f1ac5f172f7a5ee47da767cdc31bd4e164e32 /net/mac80211
parent4a55d5852adbe66722fb1636c82c7864cd5be441 (diff)
mac80211: Fix NULL-pointer deference on ibss merge when not ready
dev_open will eventually call ieee80211_ibss_join which sets up the skb used for beacons/probe-responses however it is possible to receive beacons that attempt to merge before this occurs causing a null pointer dereference. Check ssid_len as that is the last thing set in ieee80211_ibss_join. This occurs quite easily in the presence of adhoc nodes with hidden SSID's revised previous patch to check further up based on irc feedback Signed-off-by: Tim Harvey <harvey.tim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/ibss.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
index 239c4836a94..077a93dd167 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -780,6 +780,9 @@ void ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
mutex_lock(&sdata->u.ibss.mtx);
+ if (!sdata->u.ibss.ssid_len)
+ goto mgmt_out; /* not ready to merge yet */
+
switch (fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_STYPE) {
case IEEE80211_STYPE_PROBE_REQ:
ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_req(sdata, mgmt, skb->len);
@@ -797,6 +800,7 @@ void ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
break;
}
+ mgmt_out:
mutex_unlock(&sdata->u.ibss.mtx);
}