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nl80211: don't crash sending invalid chandef

Message ID 1417105805-10065-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
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Johannes Berg Nov. 27, 2014, 4:30 p.m. UTC 
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

One of the cases for an invalid channel definition is that
the channel pointer is NULL, in which case the warning is
a bit late since we'll dereference the pointer. Bail out
of the function upon warning about this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index e11980e74a04..4fae26d722f8 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -2317,7 +2317,8 @@  static inline u64 wdev_id(struct wireless_dev *wdev)
 static int nl80211_send_chandef(struct sk_buff *msg,
 				const struct cfg80211_chan_def *chandef)
 {
-	WARN_ON(!cfg80211_chandef_valid(chandef));
+	if (WARN_ON(!cfg80211_chandef_valid(chandef)))
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ,
 			chandef->chan->center_freq))