mac80211: zero initialize count field in ieee80211_tx_rate
authorMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:35:31 +0000 (10:05 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:32:56 +0000 (10:32 -0700)
commit34a9660ba1a8b98adf852f4f1090bdf084ccf991
tree0f4e9a2202d432d961e2d3c718569d08757088f2
parent3c156187b23b66ce205a7d8d93ad6ff567fc6608
mac80211: zero initialize count field in ieee80211_tx_rate

commit 8617b093d0031837a7be9b32bc674580cfb5f6b5 upstream.

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: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mac80211/rate.c