[PATCH] WE-22 : prevent information leak on 64 bit

 	Johannes Berg discovered that kernel space was leaking to
userspace on 64 bit platform. He made a first patch to fix that. This
is an improved version of his patch.

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 6055074c4b81..33ea8eac7fe0 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -621,7 +621,8 @@ static int rtnl_getlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr* nlh, void *arg)
                 if (err < 0)
                         goto errout;
 
-                iw += IW_EV_POINT_OFF;
+                /* Payload is at an offset in buffer */
+                iw = iw_buf + IW_EV_POINT_OFF;
         }
 #endif  /* CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK */