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Re: cfg80211: add 802.11ad (60gHz band) support

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On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 13:53 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Vladimir Kondratiev,
> 
> The patch 3a0c52a6d82c: "cfg80211: add 802.11ad (60gHz band) support" 
> from Jul 2, 2012, leads to the following warning:
> drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:1841 init_mac80211_hwsim()
> 	 warn: buffer overflow 'data->bands' 2 <= 2
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
>   1839  
>   1840                  for (band = IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ; band < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; band++) {
>                                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> We raised IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS to 3.
> 
>   1841                          struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband = &data->bands[band];
>                                                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
> This only has 2 elements still.
> 
>   1842                          switch (band) {
>   1843                          case IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ:
> 
> It causes a bogus dereference later.

Thanks Dan!

Is this one of your non-default tests? I think I ran smatch on this, but
it might be old. Anyway, I'll commit this fix: 

http://p.sipsolutions.net/a1c40eea7e33541b.txt

johannes

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