From 7e884d32c0df5f67f49f2db59c93b94bb73a07b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avinash Patil Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:12:25 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: do not process mgmt rx on uninitialized interface This patch fixes a crash which was happening because of RX of management frames on uninitialzed interface. Now we drop management frames for interfaces where cfg80211 has not registered any management subtype reception or interface has no NL80211 iftype set. Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c index 308550611f22f..47e215b6d5f59 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/util.c @@ -367,6 +367,13 @@ mwifiex_process_mgmt_packet(struct mwifiex_private *priv, if (!skb) return -1; + if (!priv->mgmt_frame_mask || + priv->wdev.iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED) { + dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev, + "do not receive mgmt frames on uninitialized intf"); + return -1; + } + rx_pd = (struct rxpd *)skb->data; skb_pull(skb, le16_to_cpu(rx_pd->rx_pkt_offset)); -- 2.39.5