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[patch] airo: copying wrong data in airo_get_aplist()

From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-18 07:48:14
Also in: kernel-janitors
Subsystem: networking drivers (wireless), the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

"qual" used to be declared on the stack, but then in 998a5a7d6a ("airo:
reduce stack memory footprint") we made it dynamically allocated.
Unfortunately the memcpy() here was missed and it's still copying stack
memory instead of the data that we want.  In other words, "&qual" should
be "qual".

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c b/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c
index 252c2c2..f9f15bb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c
@@ -7233,8 +7233,8 @@ static int airo_get_aplist(struct net_device *dev,
 		}
 	} else {
 		dwrq->flags = 1; /* Should be define'd */
-		memcpy(extra + sizeof(struct sockaddr)*i,
-		       &qual,  sizeof(struct iw_quality)*i);
+		memcpy(extra + sizeof(struct sockaddr) * i, qual,
+		       sizeof(struct iw_quality) * i);
 	}
 	dwrq->length = i;
 
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