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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-08 09:14:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-08 09:15:00 +0200 |
| commit | 153db80f8cf74e8700cac96305b6c0b92918f17c (patch) | |
| tree | c2afb28e7b3f4fbf0aacd9edd39d7f895321ca0c /net/wireless/wext-core.c | |
| parent | 5fd03ddab7fdbc44bfb2d183a4531c26a8dbca5a (diff) | |
| parent | cb655d0f3d57c23db51b981648e452988c0223f9 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc7' into core/memblock
Merge reason: Update from -rc3 to -rc7.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/wext-core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/wext-core.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c index 0ef17bc42ba..8f5116f5af1 100644 --- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c +++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c @@ -782,6 +782,22 @@ static int ioctl_standard_iw_point(struct iw_point *iwp, unsigned int cmd, } } + if (IW_IS_GET(cmd) && !(descr->flags & IW_DESCR_FLAG_NOMAX)) { + /* + * If this is a GET, but not NOMAX, it means that the extra + * data is not bounded by userspace, but by max_tokens. Thus + * set the length to max_tokens. This matches the extra data + * allocation. + * The driver should fill it with the number of tokens it + * provided, and it may check iwp->length rather than having + * knowledge of max_tokens. If the driver doesn't change the + * iwp->length, this ioctl just copies back max_token tokens + * filled with zeroes. Hopefully the driver isn't claiming + * them to be valid data. + */ + iwp->length = descr->max_tokens; + } + err = handler(dev, info, (union iwreq_data *) iwp, extra); iwp->length += essid_compat; |