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| author |   Yuri Ershov <ext-yuri.ershov@nokia.com> | 2010-06-29 15:08:08 +0400 |
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| committer |   John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-07-28 16:24:01 -0400 |
| commit | c4c322941ce0d7e2b7b8794ad70683123d9cb26a (patch) | |
| tree | 05e21ce160325f8bbcec70abff35977fadd01ee2 /net/wireless | |
| parent | nl80211: Fix memory leaks (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-c4c322941ce0d7e2b7b8794ad70683123d9cb26a.tar.xz linux-dev-c4c322941ce0d7e2b7b8794ad70683123d9cb26a.zip | |
cfg80211: Update of regulatory request initiator handling
In some cases there could be possible dereferencing freed pointer. The
update is intended to avoid this issue.
Signed-off-by: Yuri Ershov <ext-yuri.ershov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/reg.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c index ec4e76f95044..f180db0de66c 100644 --- a/net/wireless/reg.c +++ b/net/wireless/reg.c @@ -1306,6 +1306,7 @@ static void reg_process_hint(struct regulatory_request *reg_request) { int r = 0; struct wiphy *wiphy = NULL; + enum nl80211_reg_initiator initiator = reg_request->initiator; BUG_ON(!reg_request->alpha2); @@ -1325,7 +1326,7 @@ static void reg_process_hint(struct regulatory_request *reg_request) /* This is required so that the orig_* parameters are saved */ if (r == -EALREADY && wiphy && wiphy->flags & WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY) - wiphy_update_regulatory(wiphy, reg_request->initiator); + wiphy_update_regulatory(wiphy, initiator); out: mutex_unlock(®_mutex); mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex); |