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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-07 14:06:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-07 14:06:10 -0700
commit608307e6de2631e37f55f106a7cbbc560cb12751 (patch)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (26 commits) pkt_sched: Fix lockdep warning on est_tree_lock in gen_estimator ipvs: avoid oops for passive FTP Revert "sky2: don't do GRO on second port" gro: fix different skb headrooms bridge: Clear INET control block of SKBs passed into ip_fragment(). 3c59x: Remove incorrect locking; correct documented lock hierarchy sky2: don't do GRO on second port ipv4: minor fix about RPF in help of Kconfig xfrm_user: avoid a warning with some compiler net/sched/sch_hfsc.c: initialize parent's cl_cfmin properly in init_vf() pxa168_eth: fix a mdiobus leak net sched: fix kernel leak in act_police vhost: stop worker only if created MAINTAINERS: Add ehea driver as Supported ath9k_hw: fix parsing of HT40 5 GHz CTLs ath9k_hw: Fix EEPROM uncompress block reading on AR9003 wireless: register wiphy rfkill w/o holding cfg80211_mutex netlink: Make NETLINK_USERSOCK work again. irda: Correctly clean up self->ias_obj on irda_bind() failure. wireless extensions: fix kernel heap content leak ...
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/wext-core.c')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext-core.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index 0ef17bc..8f5116f 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -782,6 +782,22 @@ static int ioctl_standard_iw_point(struct iw_point *iwp, unsigned int cmd,
}
}
+ if (IW_IS_GET(cmd) && !(descr->flags & IW_DESCR_FLAG_NOMAX)) {
+ /*
+ * If this is a GET, but not NOMAX, it means that the extra
+ * data is not bounded by userspace, but by max_tokens. Thus
+ * set the length to max_tokens. This matches the extra data
+ * allocation.
+ * The driver should fill it with the number of tokens it
+ * provided, and it may check iwp->length rather than having
+ * knowledge of max_tokens. If the driver doesn't change the
+ * iwp->length, this ioctl just copies back max_token tokens
+ * filled with zeroes. Hopefully the driver isn't claiming
+ * them to be valid data.
+ */
+ iwp->length = descr->max_tokens;
+ }
+
err = handler(dev, info, (union iwreq_data *) iwp, extra);
iwp->length += essid_compat;