Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2021-12-08

Re: [PATCH for v5.16] iwlwifi: mvm: don't crash on invalid rate w/o STA

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From: Luca Coelho <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-03 12:05:37

On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 14:04 +0200, Luca Coelho wrote:
From: Johannes Berg <redacted>

If we get to the WARN_ONCE(..., "Got a HT rate (...)", ...)
here with a NULL sta, then we crash because mvmsta is bad
and we try to dereference it. Fix that by printing -1 as the
state if no station was given.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <redacted>
Fixes: 6761a718263a ("iwlwifi: mvm: add explicit check for non-data frames in get Tx rate")
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <redacted>
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Kalle,

Can you take this one directly to wireless-drivers? This fixes a kernel
crash in some situations.

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Cheers,
Luca.
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