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authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-08-24 15:27:34 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-08-30 16:01:14 -0400
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ath5k: check return value of ieee80211_get_tx_rate
This avoids a NULL pointer dereference as reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625889 When the WARN condition is hit in ieee80211_get_tx_rate, it will return NULL. So, we need to check the return value and avoid dereferencing it in that case. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
index 373dcfec689c..d77ce9906b6c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
@@ -1327,6 +1327,10 @@ ath5k_txbuf_setup(struct ath5k_softc *sc, struct ath5k_buf *bf,
PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
rate = ieee80211_get_tx_rate(sc->hw, info);
+ if (!rate) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_unmap;
+ }
if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK)
flags |= AR5K_TXDESC_NOACK;