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[2/4] mwifiex: do not process mgmt rx on uninitialized interface

Message ID 1423676547-5213-2-git-send-email-patila@marvell.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Avinash Patil Feb. 11, 2015, 5:42 p.m. UTC 
This patch fixes a crash which was happening because of RX of
management frames on uninitialzed interface. Now we drop management
frames for interfaces where cfg80211 has not registered any management
subtype reception or interface has no NL80211 iftype set.

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c
index 3085506..47e215b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c
@@ -367,6 +367,13 @@  mwifiex_process_mgmt_packet(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 	if (!skb)
 		return -1;
 
+	if (!priv->mgmt_frame_mask ||
+	    priv->wdev.iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED) {
+		dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
+			"do not receive mgmt frames on uninitialized intf");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	rx_pd = (struct rxpd *)skb->data;
 
 	skb_pull(skb, le16_to_cpu(rx_pd->rx_pkt_offset));