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authorLuis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>2008-05-05 12:29:42 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-05-12 21:22:18 -0400
commit69687a0b9934942e61bf8148c242adea87183a5b (patch)
treea235fcc6f21a97c95ff2c58d3f13fa129370b84d /net
parentef269254772a0d2253c85cafe160e3f6528eb292 (diff)
downloadlinux-69687a0b9934942e61bf8148c242adea87183a5b.tar.gz
mac80211: fix access to null skb
Without this patch, if xmit_skb is null but net_ratelimit() returns 0 we would
go to the else branch and access the null xmit_skb. Pointed out by Johannes
Berg.

Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rx.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 02f436a86061..9c57b3af0244 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1305,11 +1305,11 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
 		if (is_multicast_ether_addr(skb->data)) {
 			if (*mesh_ttl > 0) {
 				xmit_skb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
-				if (!xmit_skb && net_ratelimit())
+				if (xmit_skb)
+					xmit_skb->pkt_type = PACKET_OTHERHOST;
+				else if (net_ratelimit())
 					printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: failed to clone "
 					       "multicast frame\n", dev->name);
-				else
-					xmit_skb->pkt_type = PACKET_OTHERHOST;
 			} else
 				IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(&sdata->u.sta,
 							     dropped_frames_ttl);