linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 05/64] mac80211

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Message-Id: <20171003114229.148837149@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue,  3 Oct 2017 14:22:57 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Beni Lev <beni.lev@...el.com>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 05/64] mac80211_hwsim: Use proper TX power

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

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

From: Beni Lev <beni.lev@...el.com>

commit 9de981f507474f326e42117858dc9a9321331ae5 upstream.

In struct ieee80211_tx_info, control.vif pointer and rate_driver_data[0]
falls on the same place, depending on the union usage.
During the whole TX process, the union is referred to as a control struct,
which holds the vif that is later used in the tx flow, especially in order
to derive the used tx power.
Referring direcly to rate_driver_data[0] and assigning a value to it,
overwrites the vif pointer, hence making all later references irrelevant.
Moreover, rate_driver_data[0] isn't used later in the flow in order to
retrieve the channel that it is pointing to.

Signed-off-by: Beni Lev <beni.lev@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -1357,8 +1357,6 @@ static void mac80211_hwsim_tx(struct iee
 				       txi->control.rates,
 				       ARRAY_SIZE(txi->control.rates));

-	txi->rate_driver_data[0] = channel;
-
 	if (skb->len >= 24 + 8 &&
 	    ieee80211_is_probe_resp(hdr->frame_control)) {
 		/* fake header transmission time */