This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: remove BUG() when interface type is invalid
to the 4.4-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:
mac80211-remove-bug-when-interface-type-is-invalid.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Mar 19 09:58:12 CET 2018
From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:51:10 +0200
Subject: mac80211: remove BUG() when interface type is invalid
From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit c7976f5272486e4ff406014c4b43e2fa3b70b052 ]
In the ieee80211_setup_sdata() we check if the interface type is valid
and, if not, call BUG(). This should never happen, but if there is
something wrong with the code, it will not be caught until the bug
happens when an interface is being set up. Calling BUG() is too
extreme for this and a WARN_ON() would be better used instead. Change
that.
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/iface.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@ static void ieee80211_setup_sdata(struct
break;
case NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED:
case NUM_NL80211_IFTYPES:
- BUG();
+ WARN_ON(1);
break;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/mac80211-remove-bug-when-interface-type-is-invalid.patch
queue-4.4/mac80211_hwsim-enforce-ps_manual_poll-to-be-set-after-ps_enabled.patch