netdev - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Ensure initializing private mc_list in prepare

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Date:	Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:09:23 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Ensure initializing private mc_list in
 prepare_multicast().

Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:59:30AM CEST, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org wrote:
>Fix kernel panic by NULL pointer dereference in the context of
>ieee80211_ops->prepare_multicast().
>
>This bug was introduced by commit 22bedad3c.. ("net: convert
>multicast list to list_head").
>
>Call __hw_addr_init() in ieee80211_alloc_hw() to initialize
>list_head of private device multicast list, like we do in
>bond_init().
>
>Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
>---
> net/mac80211/main.c |    3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
>index 84ad249..0b82cd2 100644
>--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
>+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
>@@ -388,6 +388,9 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *ieee80211_alloc_hw(size_t priv_data_len,
> 	local->uapsd_max_sp_len = IEEE80211_DEFAULT_MAX_SP_LEN;
> 
> 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&local->interfaces);
>+
>+	__hw_addr_init(&local->mc_list);
>+
> 	mutex_init(&local->iflist_mtx);
> 	mutex_init(&local->scan_mtx);
> 

Whoups, missed this bit. Thanks a lot.

Rewieved-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>

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>1.5.6.5
>
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