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| author | Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> | 2008-05-05 21:29:42 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-05-13 03:22:18 +0200 |
| commit | 69687a0b9934942e61bf8148c242adea87183a5b (patch) | |
| tree | a235fcc6f21a97c95ff2c58d3f13fa129370b84d /net | |
| parent | mac80211: fix incorrect mesh header length (diff) | |
| download | linux-69687a0b9934942e61bf8148c242adea87183a5b.tar.xz linux-69687a0b9934942e61bf8148c242adea87183a5b.zip | |
mac80211: fix access to null skb
Without this patch, if xmit_skb is null but net_ratelimit() returns 0 we would
go to the else branch and access the null xmit_skb. Pointed out by Johannes
Berg.
Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/rx.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index 02f436a86061..9c57b3af0244 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -1305,11 +1305,11 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx) if (is_multicast_ether_addr(skb->data)) { if (*mesh_ttl > 0) { xmit_skb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!xmit_skb && net_ratelimit()) + if (xmit_skb) + xmit_skb->pkt_type = PACKET_OTHERHOST; + else if (net_ratelimit()) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: failed to clone " "multicast frame\n", dev->name); - else - xmit_skb->pkt_type = PACKET_OTHERHOST; } else IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(&sdata->u.sta, dropped_frames_ttl); |