Commit 8617b093 authored by Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan's avatar Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan Committed by John W. Linville

mac80211: zero initialize count field in ieee80211_tx_rate

rate control algorithms concludes the rate as invalid
with rate[i].idx < -1 , while they do also check for rate[i].count is
non-zero. it would be safer to zero initialize the 'count' field.
recently we had a ath9k rate control crash where the ath9k rate control
in ath_tx_status assumed to check only for rate[i].count being non-zero
in one instance and ended up in using invalid rate index for
'connection monitoring NULL func frames' which eventually lead to the crash.
thanks to Pavel Roskin for fixing it and finding the root cause.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768639

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 5dcbf480
......@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ void rate_control_get_rate(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES; i++) {
info->control.rates[i].idx = -1;
info->control.rates[i].flags = 0;
info->control.rates[i].count = 1;
info->control.rates[i].count = 0;
}
if (sdata->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL)
......
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