summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/net/wireless/wext-core.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/wext-core.c')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext-core.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index a125fd1fa134..a161c64d1765 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -815,6 +815,12 @@ static int ioctl_standard_iw_point(struct iw_point *iwp, unsigned int cmd,
}
}
+ /* Sanity-check to ensure we never end up _allocating_ zero
+ * bytes of data for extra.
+ */
+ if (extra_size <= 0)
+ return -EFAULT;
+
/* kzalloc() ensures NULL-termination for essid_compat. */
extra = kzalloc(extra_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!extra)