mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when finding max_rates in PID and minstrel

"There is another problem with this piece of code. The sband will be NULL
after second iteration on single band device and cause null pointer
dereference. Everything is working with dual band card. Sorry, but i
don't know how to explain this clearly in English. I have looked on the
second patch for pid algorithm and found similar bug."

Reported-by: Karol Szuster <qflon@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
index 70df3dc..d9233ec 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ minstrel_alloc_sta(void *priv, struct ieee80211_sta *sta, gfp_t gfp)
 
        for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; i++) {
                sband = hw->wiphy->bands[i];
-               if (sband->n_bitrates > max_rates)
+               if (sband && sband->n_bitrates > max_rates)
                        max_rates = sband->n_bitrates;
        }
 

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
index 01d59a8..8bef9a1 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static void *rate_control_pid_alloc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 
        for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; i++) {
                sband = hw->wiphy->bands[i];
-               if (sband->n_bitrates > max_rates)
+               if (sband && sband->n_bitrates > max_rates)
                        max_rates = sband->n_bitrates;
        }