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authorMichal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>2017-11-15 13:09:32 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-11-16 10:49:00 +0900
commit0a833c29d89656025443cb9f0ebff7052dd95ce0 (patch)
tree136494be53be2512054e257ae0cc0e0e4d011910 /net/wireless
parent423852f89034492cc40920c00908f6de7d2dbe4f (diff)
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genetlink: fix genlmsg_nlhdr()
According to the description, first argument of genlmsg_nlhdr() points to what genlmsg_put() returns, i.e. beginning of user header. Therefore we should only subtract size of genetlink header and netlink message header, not user header. This also means we don't need to pass the pointer to genetlink family and the same is true for genl_dump_check_consistent() which is the only caller of genlmsg_nlhdr(). (Note that at the moment, these functions are only used for families which do not have user header so that they are not affected.) Fixes: 670dc2833d14 ("netlink: advertise incomplete dumps") Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index bb16f1ec766e..a0e1951227fa 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -6291,7 +6291,7 @@ static int nl80211_send_regdom(struct sk_buff *msg, struct netlink_callback *cb,
if (!hdr)
return -1;
- genl_dump_check_consistent(cb, hdr, &nl80211_fam);
+ genl_dump_check_consistent(cb, hdr);
if (nl80211_put_regdom(regdom, msg))
goto nla_put_failure;
@@ -7722,7 +7722,7 @@ static int nl80211_send_bss(struct sk_buff *msg, struct netlink_callback *cb,
if (!hdr)
return -1;
- genl_dump_check_consistent(cb, hdr, &nl80211_fam);
+ genl_dump_check_consistent(cb, hdr);
if (nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_GENERATION, rdev->bss_generation))
goto nla_put_failure;