linux-kernel - [ 34/64] mwifiex: limit channel number not to overflow memory

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Date:	Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:46:31 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Stone Piao <piaoyun@...vell.com>,
	Bing Zhao <bzhao@...vell.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: [ 34/64] mwifiex: limit channel number not to overflow memory

3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Stone Piao <piaoyun@...vell.com>

commit 901ceba4e81e9dd6b4a3c4c37ee22000a6c5c65f upstream.

Limit the channel number in scan request, or the driver scan
config structure memory will be overflowed.

Signed-off-by: Stone Piao <piaoyun@...vell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@...vell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
@@ -1846,7 +1846,8 @@ mwifiex_cfg80211_scan(struct wiphy *wiph
 		}
 	}
 
-	for (i = 0; i < request->n_channels; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < min_t(u32, request->n_channels,
+			      MWIFIEX_USER_SCAN_CHAN_MAX); i++) {
 		chan = request->channels[i];
 		priv->user_scan_cfg->chan_list[i].chan_number = chan->hw_value;
 		priv->user_scan_cfg->chan_list[i].radio_type = chan->band;


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