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Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/wext.c')
-rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/wext.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext.c b/net/wireless/wext.c index 60fe57761ca9..a2e4c60ac239 100644 --- a/net/wireless/wext.c +++ b/net/wireless/wext.c @@ -854,6 +854,22 @@ static int ioctl_standard_iw_point(struct iw_point *iwp, unsigned int cmd, } } + if (IW_IS_GET(cmd) && !(descr->flags & IW_DESCR_FLAG_NOMAX)) { + /* + * If this is a GET, but not NOMAX, it means that the extra + * data is not bounded by userspace, but by max_tokens. Thus + * set the length to max_tokens. This matches the extra data + * allocation. + * The driver should fill it with the number of tokens it + * provided, and it may check iwp->length rather than having + * knowledge of max_tokens. If the driver doesn't change the + * iwp->length, this ioctl just copies back max_token tokens + * filled with zeroes. Hopefully the driver isn't claiming + * them to be valid data. + */ + iwp->length = descr->max_tokens; + } + err = handler(dev, info, (union iwreq_data *) iwp, extra); iwp->length += essid_compat; @@ -1013,7 +1029,7 @@ static int ioctl_private_iw_point(struct iw_point *iwp, unsigned int cmd, } else if (!iwp->pointer) return -EFAULT; - extra = kmalloc(extra_size, GFP_KERNEL); + extra = kzalloc(extra_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!extra) return -ENOMEM; |