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Re: [patch] mac80211: potential null dereference in mesh forwarding

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Le lundi 03 janvier 2011 Ã 08:43 +0300, Dan Carpenter a Ãcrit :
> The printk() is supposed to be ratelimited but we should always goto out
> when fwd_skb is NULL.  Otherwise it gets dereferenced on the next line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> index 5e9d3bc..dc8b566 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> @@ -1831,8 +1831,9 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
>  
>  			fwd_skb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  
> -			if (!fwd_skb && net_ratelimit()) {
> -				printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: failed to clone mesh frame\n",
> +			if (!fwd_skb) {
> +				if (net_ratelimit())
> +					printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: failed to clone mesh frame\n",
>  						   sdata->name);
>  				goto out;
>  			}

Already discovered/coped by Milton Miller.



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