Patch "staging: r8712u: Fix case where ethtype was never obtained and always be checked against 0" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    staging: r8712u: Fix case where ethtype was never obtained and always be checked against 0

to the 3.4-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:
     staging-r8712u-fix-case-where-ethtype-was-never-obtained-and-always-be-checked-against-0.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From f764cd68d9036498f08fe8834deb6a367b5c2542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:49:33 -0500
Subject: staging: r8712u: Fix case where ethtype was never obtained and always be checked against 0

From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit f764cd68d9036498f08fe8834deb6a367b5c2542 upstream.

Zero-initializing ether_type masked that the ether type would never be
obtained for 8021x packets and the comparison against eapol_type
would always fail.

Reported-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c |   13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ union recv_frame *r8712_portctrl(struct
 	struct sta_info *psta;
 	struct	sta_priv *pstapriv;
 	union recv_frame *prtnframe;
-	u16 ether_type = 0;
+	u16 ether_type;
 
 	pstapriv = &adapter->stapriv;
 	ptr = get_recvframe_data(precv_frame);
@@ -262,15 +262,14 @@ union recv_frame *r8712_portctrl(struct
 	psta = r8712_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);
 	auth_alg = adapter->securitypriv.AuthAlgrthm;
 	if (auth_alg == 2) {
+		/* get ether_type */
+		ptr = ptr + pfhdr->attrib.hdrlen + LLC_HEADER_SIZE;
+		memcpy(&ether_type, ptr, 2);
+		ether_type = ntohs((unsigned short)ether_type);
+
 		if ((psta != NULL) && (psta->ieee8021x_blocked)) {
 			/* blocked
 			 * only accept EAPOL frame */
-			prtnframe = precv_frame;
-			/*get ether_type */
-			ptr = ptr + pfhdr->attrib.hdrlen +
-			      pfhdr->attrib.iv_len + LLC_HEADER_SIZE;
-			memcpy(&ether_type, ptr, 2);
-			ether_type = ntohs((unsigned short)ether_type);
 			if (ether_type == 0x888e)
 				prtnframe = precv_frame;
 			else {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.4/staging-r8712u-fix-case-where-ethtype-was-never-obtained-and-always-be-checked-against-0.patch
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