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authorArik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>2011-06-22 17:00:24 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-06-27 14:45:25 -0400
commita66b98db570a638afd909459e1e6bfa272344bd3 (patch)
treee4e78a0602b46121548fad2e357f03d550d23c94 /net/wireless
parent8fcbd4dc7a1b338b393dcd6869deb1725cf1a9f3 (diff)
mac80211: fix rx->key NULL dereference during mic failure
Sometimes when reporting a MIC failure rx->key may be unset. This code path is hit when receiving a packet meant for a multicast address, and decryption is performed in HW. Fortunately, the failing key_idx is not used for anything up to (and including) usermode, so we allow ourselves to drop it on the way up when a key cannot be retrieved. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 98fa8eb6cc4b..f07602d7bf68 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -6463,7 +6463,8 @@ void nl80211_michael_mic_failure(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
6463 if (addr) 6463 if (addr)
6464 NLA_PUT(msg, NL80211_ATTR_MAC, ETH_ALEN, addr); 6464 NLA_PUT(msg, NL80211_ATTR_MAC, ETH_ALEN, addr);
6465 NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_KEY_TYPE, key_type); 6465 NLA_PUT_U32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_KEY_TYPE, key_type);
6466 NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_ATTR_KEY_IDX, key_id); 6466 if (key_id != -1)
6467 NLA_PUT_U8(msg, NL80211_ATTR_KEY_IDX, key_id);
6467 if (tsc) 6468 if (tsc)
6468 NLA_PUT(msg, NL80211_ATTR_KEY_SEQ, 6, tsc); 6469 NLA_PUT(msg, NL80211_ATTR_KEY_SEQ, 6, tsc);
6469 6470