3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b77992d2df9e47144354d1b25328b180afa33442 ] When not associated with an AP, wifi device drivers should respond to the SIOCGIWESSID ioctl with a zero-length string for the SSID, which is the behavior expected by dhcpcd. Currently, this driver returns an error code (-1) from the ioctl call, which causes dhcpcd to assume that the device is not a wireless interface and therefore it fails to work correctly with it thereafter. This problem was reported and tested at https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/issues/234. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 14 ++++---------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c @@ -1396,19 +1396,13 @@ static int rtw_wx_get_essid(struct net_d if ((check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_LINKED)) || (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, WIFI_ADHOC_MASTER_STATE))) { len = pcur_bss->Ssid.SsidLength; - - wrqu->essid.length = len; - memcpy(extra, pcur_bss->Ssid.Ssid, len); - - wrqu->essid.flags = 1; } else { - ret = -1; - goto exit; + len = 0; + *extra = 0; } - -exit: - + wrqu->essid.length = len; + wrqu->essid.flags = 1; return ret; }