Ad-hoc requires beaconing for regulatory purposes. Validate that the channel is valid for beaconing, and not only enabled. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arikx.nemtsov@xxxxxxxxx> --- Ilan Peer mentioned this bug privately, so I thought I'd roll it up into this patch-set net/wireless/reg.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c index c3e6f80..004ea14 100644 --- a/net/wireless/reg.c +++ b/net/wireless/reg.c @@ -1552,9 +1552,15 @@ static bool reg_wdev_chan_valid(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev) ret = cfg80211_reg_can_beacon(wiphy, &wdev->chandef, wdev->iftype); break; + case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: + if (!wdev->ssid_len) + goto out; + + ret = cfg80211_reg_can_beacon(wiphy, + &wdev->chandef, wdev->iftype); + break; case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION: case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT: - case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: if (!wdev->current_bss || !wdev->current_bss->pub.channel) goto out; -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html