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| author | Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> | 2012-04-06 23:54:17 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-04-09 21:54:49 +0200 |
| commit | e89f7690a3adbde0af7c294f83c242ba6a367ef0 (patch) | |
| tree | b7d886c9e9f43644f2138b222c213ad5ab670322 /drivers/net/wireless | |
| parent | mac80211: Convert WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE (diff) | |
| download | linux-e89f7690a3adbde0af7c294f83c242ba6a367ef0.tar.xz linux-e89f7690a3adbde0af7c294f83c242ba6a367ef0.zip | |
rtlwifi: Fix oops on rate-control failure
When the rate-control indexing is incorrectly set up, mac80211 issues
a warning and returns NULL from the call to ieee80211_get_tx_rate().
When this happens, avoid a NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c index 510023554e5f..e54488db0e10 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c @@ -838,7 +838,10 @@ void rtl_get_tcb_desc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, __le16 fc = hdr->frame_control; txrate = ieee80211_get_tx_rate(hw, info); - tcb_desc->hw_rate = txrate->hw_value; + if (txrate) + tcb_desc->hw_rate = txrate->hw_value; + else + tcb_desc->hw_rate = 0; if (ieee80211_is_data(fc)) { /* |