This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nl80211: fix non-split wiphy information to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nl80211-fix-non-split-wiphy-information.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cf4809a955cbb259de9645d3177a2c690550c940 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 28 13:07:18 2020 +0200 nl80211: fix non-split wiphy information [ Upstream commit ab10c22bc3b2024f0c9eafa463899a071eac8d97 ] When dumping wiphy information, we try to split the data into many submessages, but for old userspace we still support the old mode where this doesn't happen. However, in this case we were not resetting our state correctly and dumping multiple messages for each wiphy, which would have broken such older userspace. This was broken pretty much immediately afterwards because it only worked in the original commit where non-split dumps didn't have any more data than split dumps... Fixes: fe1abafd942f ("nl80211: re-add channel width and extended capa advertising") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200928130717.3e6d9c6bada2.Ie0f151a8d0d00a8e1e18f6a8c9244dd02496af67@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 3faad3b147376..672b70730e898 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -2227,7 +2227,10 @@ static int nl80211_send_wiphy(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, * case we'll continue with more data in the next round, * but break unconditionally so unsplit data stops here. */ - state->split_start++; + if (state->split) + state->split_start++; + else + state->split_start = 0; break; case 9: if (rdev->wiphy.extended_capabilities &&