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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2009-05-31 18:24:34 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-07-02 16:50:07 -0700
commiteebd7ca1029a0d253bbc94544ca887fdb05d0b55 (patch)
tree730ee339097477329c6490b1c32b19f5be36c698 /net
parente58e8373ccdc6ef164009b814d0791705c0d3394 (diff)
cfg80211: fix for duplicate userspace replies
commit 729e9c7663190d71fe5e29831634df80f38199c1 upstream. This fixes an incorrect assumption (BUG_ON) made in cfg80211 when handling country IE regulatory requests. The assumption was that we won't try to call_crda() twice for the same event and therefore we will not recieve two replies through nl80211 for the regulatory request. As it turns out it is true we don't call_crda() twice for the same event, however, kobject_uevent_env() *might* send the udev event twice and/or userspace can simply process the udev event twice. We remove the BUG_ON() and simply ignore the duplicate request. For details refer to this thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124149987921337&w=2 Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/reg.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index 487cb627ddba..d3ac70551ce2 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -2042,7 +2042,13 @@ static int __set_regdom(const struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd)
* the country IE rd with what CRDA believes that country should have
*/
- BUG_ON(!country_ie_regdomain);
+ /*
+ * Userspace could have sent two replies with only
+ * one kernel request. By the second reply we would have
+ * already processed and consumed the country_ie_regdomain.
+ */
+ if (!country_ie_regdomain)
+ return -EALREADY;
BUG_ON(rd == country_ie_regdomain);
/*