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authorAvinash Patil2015-02-11 18:42:25 +0100
committerKalle Valo2015-02-27 09:08:44 +0100
commit7521ce6eb2d3650a04ac7a1d176607ae9441826a (patch)
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parentmwifiex: more_task flag for main_process (diff)
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mwifiex: do not process mgmt rx on uninitialized interface
This patch fixes a crash which was happening because of RX of management frames on uninitialzed interface. Now we drop management frames for interfaces where cfg80211 has not registered any management subtype reception or interface has no NL80211 iftype set. Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c
index 308550611f22..47e215b6d5f5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c
@@ -367,6 +367,13 @@ mwifiex_process_mgmt_packet(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
if (!skb)
return -1;
+ if (!priv->mgmt_frame_mask ||
+ priv->wdev.iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED) {
+ dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
+ "do not receive mgmt frames on uninitialized intf");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
rx_pd = (struct rxpd *)skb->data;
skb_pull(skb, le16_to_cpu(rx_pd->rx_pkt_offset));