netdev - Re: nl80211 NULL pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <20130618.190632.33329016434510583.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:06:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	johannes@...solutions.net, linville@...driver.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nl80211 NULL pointer dereference

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:46:13 -1000

> Hmm. Maybe this is old, but I don't think I've seen it before (who
> knows, maybe it has killed the machine before, I had a hard hang the
> other day).
> 
> It's a NULL pointer dereference in nl80211_set_reg() on my Pixel. The
> machine kind of stayed up afterwards, although with no working
> wireless, and it would not shut down cleanly presumably due to locks
> held etc.
> 
> Any ideas? I'm including the few wireless-related messages that
> happened justr before the oops. Being a pixel, this is with the ath9k
> driver.

nl80211_set_reg() is really careful about validating which netlink
attributes the user has specified, and either not dereferencing or
signalling an error when NULL is seen.

Hmmm...
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