From 8617b093d0031837a7be9b32bc674580cfb5f6b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:05:31 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: zero initialize count field in ieee80211_tx_rate rate control algorithms concludes the rate as invalid with rate[i].idx < -1 , while they do also check for rate[i].count is non-zero. it would be safer to zero initialize the 'count' field. recently we had a ath9k rate control crash where the ath9k rate control in ath_tx_status assumed to check only for rate[i].count being non-zero in one instance and ended up in using invalid rate index for 'connection monitoring NULL func frames' which eventually lead to the crash. thanks to Pavel Roskin for fixing it and finding the root cause. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768639 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Pavel Roskin Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/mac80211/rate.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/rate.c b/net/mac80211/rate.c index ad64f4d..f9b8e81 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rate.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rate.c @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ void rate_control_get_rate(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES; i++) { info->control.rates[i].idx = -1; info->control.rates[i].flags = 0; - info->control.rates[i].count = 1; + info->control.rates[i].count = 0; } if (sdata->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL) -- 1.7.4.4