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mac80211: fix NULL dereference in radiotap code
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 11:28:33 +0000 (12:28 +0100)
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@oracle.com>
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:19:15 +0000 (11:19 -0800)
commitf28dde099eef7f7bcedf664e5d57a7e971e6d936
treee399f7d4ac5af70f8da6abf0546a7333c8c2374f
parent1a089d22e580fb3fd27a2c717fe9bd9551f78879
mac80211: fix NULL dereference in radiotap code

commit f8d1ccf15568268c76f913b45ecdd33134387f1a upstream.

When receiving failed PLCP frames is enabled, there
won't be a rate pointer when we add the radiotap
header and thus the kernel will crash. Fix this by
not assuming the rate pointer is always valid. It's
still always valid for frames that have good PLCP
though, and that is checked & enforced.

This was broken by my
commit fc88518916793af8ad6a02e05ff254d95c36d875
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 30 13:23:12 2010 +0200

    mac80211: don't check rates on PLCP error frames

where I removed the check in this case but didn't
take into account that the rate info would be used.

Reported-by: Xiaokang Qin <xiaokang.qin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/mac80211/rx.c