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[PATCH] nl80211/cfg80211: Make addition of new sinfo fields safer

From: Jouni Malinen <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-11 08:46:28
Subsystem: 802.11 (including cfg80211/nl80211), mac80211, the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

Add a comment pointing out the use of enum station_info_flags for
all new struct station_info fields. In addition, memset the sinfo
buffer to zero before use on all paths in the current tree to avoid
leaving uninitialized pointers in the data.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <redacted>
---
 include/net/cfg80211.h  |    5 +++++
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c |    1 +
 net/wireless/nl80211.c  |    1 +
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 96876d3..ab12440 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -563,6 +563,11 @@ struct station_info {
 
 	const u8 *assoc_req_ies;
 	size_t assoc_req_ies_len;
+
+	/*
+	 * Note: Add a new enum station_info_flags value for each new field and
+	 * use it to check which fields are initialized.
+	 */
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index 3db78b6..5eaa167 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ static int sta_info_finish_insert(struct sta_info *sta, bool async)
 	ieee80211_sta_debugfs_add(sta);
 	rate_control_add_sta_debugfs(sta);
 
+	memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
 	sinfo.filled = 0;
 	sinfo.generation = local->sta_generation;
 	cfg80211_new_sta(sdata->dev, sta->sta.addr, &sinfo, GFP_KERNEL);
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 253e563..080fd47 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -2267,6 +2267,7 @@ static int nl80211_dump_station(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 
 	while (1) {
+		memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
 		err = dev->ops->dump_station(&dev->wiphy, netdev, sta_idx,
 					     mac_addr, &sinfo);
 		if (err == -ENOENT)
-- 
1.7.4.1


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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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