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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: check that ieee80211_set_power_mgmt only handles STA interfaces.

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On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 01:48 +0100, Benoit Papillault wrote:
> ieee80211_set_power_mgmt is meant for STA interfaces only. Moreover,
> since sdata->u.mgd.mtx is only initialized for STA interfaces, using
> this code for any other type of interface (like IBSS) will result in a
> oops.

Odd that nobody else ever saw a problem, is everybody running cards that
don't do power management?

> diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
> index 8286df5..c9de4e3 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
> @@ -1382,6 +1382,9 @@ static int ieee80211_set_power_mgmt(struct wiphy
> *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
>  	struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
>  	struct ieee80211_conf *conf = &local->hw.conf;
>  
> +	if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
> +		return 0;

You want -EOPNOTSUPP here, and cc stable.

johannes

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