This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: avoid offset calculation on NULL pointer
to the 6.6-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:
wifi-avoid-offset-calculation-on-null-pointer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 15b2424ce39279195fc38b41da6b898cd0ceadf7
Author: Michael-CY Lee <michael-cy.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 22 11:02:37 2023 +0800
wifi: avoid offset calculation on NULL pointer
[ Upstream commit ef5828805842204dd0259ecfc132b5916c8a77ae ]
ieee80211_he_6ghz_oper() can be passed a NULL pointer
and checks for that, but already did the calculation
to inside of it before. Move it after the check.
Signed-off-by: Michael-CY Lee <michael-cy.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122030237.31276-1-michael-cy.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index 2b0a73cb7cbb..2fa186258e35 100644
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -2790,12 +2790,14 @@ ieee80211_he_oper_size(const u8 *he_oper_ie)
static inline const struct ieee80211_he_6ghz_oper *
ieee80211_he_6ghz_oper(const struct ieee80211_he_operation *he_oper)
{
- const u8 *ret = (const void *)&he_oper->optional;
+ const u8 *ret;
u32 he_oper_params;
if (!he_oper)
return NULL;
+ ret = (const void *)&he_oper->optional;
+
he_oper_params = le32_to_cpu(he_oper->he_oper_params);
if (!(he_oper_params & IEEE80211_HE_OPERATION_6GHZ_OP_INFO))
