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-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext-core.c18
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index 0ef17bc42ba..dc675a3daa3 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ struct iw_statistics *get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev)
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
- if (dev->ieee80211_ptr && dev->ieee80211_ptr &&
+ if (dev->ieee80211_ptr &&
dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy &&
dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext &&
dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy->wext->get_wireless_stats)
@@ -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;