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| author | Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> | 2013-02-07 13:28:09 -0700 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2013-02-08 14:51:35 -0500 |
| commit | 0d61c9177cb9bf48dcec9c3d9205a309085d4318 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a15258f77fb66d44ed48c8992cb521c0279abfc /drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211 | |
| parent | 708eb54f20334470ad92042547db0fef0cd60462 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0d61c9177cb9bf48dcec9c3d9205a309085d4318.tar.gz | |
brcmsmac: avoid 512 byte stack variable
Dynamically allocate the probe response template which avoids potential stack corruption. Observed with smatch: drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c:7412 brcms_c_bss_update_probe_resp() warn: 'prb_resp' puts 512 bytes on stack Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com> Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Cc: "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com> Cc: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Cc: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com> Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c index 080b54da6506..0985925cd3f4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c @@ -7405,9 +7405,13 @@ brcms_c_bss_update_probe_resp(struct brcms_c_info *wlc, struct brcms_bss_cfg *cfg, bool suspend) { - u16 prb_resp[BCN_TMPL_LEN / 2]; + u16 *prb_resp; int len = BCN_TMPL_LEN; + prb_resp = kmalloc(BCN_TMPL_LEN, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!prb_resp) + return; + /* * write the probe response to hardware, or save in * the config structure @@ -7441,6 +7445,8 @@ brcms_c_bss_update_probe_resp(struct brcms_c_info *wlc, if (suspend) brcms_c_enable_mac(wlc); + + kfree(prb_resp); } void brcms_c_update_probe_resp(struct brcms_c_info *wlc, bool suspend) |