netdev - pull request: wireless-2.6 'fixes' 2008-01-22

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:44:39 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: pull request: wireless-2.6 'fixes' 2008-01-22

Dave,

Here is a NULL pointer avoidance fix for iwlwifi that would be nice
to have in 2.6.24 if possible.

Thanks!

John

---

Individual patch available here:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/fixes

---

The following changes since commit 889c94a14e38e749c8060f597ee7825ea0764229:
  Johann Felix Soden (1):
        Fix file references in documentation and Kconfig

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git fixes 

Reinette Chatre (1):
      iwlwifi: fix possible read attempt on ucode that is not available

 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |    5 +++++
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
index 1a6b0e0..0b3ec7e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -6342,6 +6342,11 @@ static int __iwl_up(struct iwl_priv *priv)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (!priv->ucode_data_backup.v_addr || !priv->ucode_data.v_addr) {
+		IWL_ERROR("ucode not available for device bringup\n");
+		return -EIO;
+	}
+
 	iwl_write32(priv, CSR_INT, 0xFFFFFFFF);
 
 	rc = iwl_hw_nic_init(priv);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
index 6cd57c2..15a45f4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
@@ -6698,6 +6698,11 @@ static int __iwl_up(struct iwl_priv *priv)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (!priv->ucode_data_backup.v_addr || !priv->ucode_data.v_addr) {
+		IWL_ERROR("ucode not available for device bringup\n");
+		return -EIO;
+	}
+
 	iwl_write32(priv, CSR_INT, 0xFFFFFFFF);
 
 	rc = iwl_hw_nic_init(priv);
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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