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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 40385936e28..dc675a3daa3 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; |