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authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>2014-04-16 14:49:33 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-04-16 13:07:19 -0700
commitf764cd68d9036498f08fe8834deb6a367b5c2542 (patch)
treebb1d77b9119cce9425c564dc2e0c4fb281373c4d /drivers/staging
parent9452bf560273e4de2395ffdd79024debfb0c1290 (diff)
downloadlinux-f764cd68d9036498f08fe8834deb6a367b5c2542.tar.bz2
staging: r8712u: Fix case where ethtype was never obtained and always be checked against 0
Zero-initializing ether_type masked that the ether type would never be obtained for 8021x packets and the comparison against eapol_type would always fail. Reported-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
index 23ec684b60e1..274c359279ef 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ union recv_frame *r8712_portctrl(struct _adapter *adapter,
struct sta_info *psta;
struct sta_priv *pstapriv;
union recv_frame *prtnframe;
- u16 ether_type = 0;
+ u16 ether_type;
pstapriv = &adapter->stapriv;
ptr = get_recvframe_data(precv_frame);
@@ -263,15 +263,14 @@ union recv_frame *r8712_portctrl(struct _adapter *adapter,
psta = r8712_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);
auth_alg = adapter->securitypriv.AuthAlgrthm;
if (auth_alg == 2) {
+ /* get ether_type */
+ ptr = ptr + pfhdr->attrib.hdrlen + LLC_HEADER_SIZE;
+ memcpy(&ether_type, ptr, 2);
+ ether_type = ntohs((unsigned short)ether_type);
+
if ((psta != NULL) && (psta->ieee8021x_blocked)) {
/* blocked
* only accept EAPOL frame */
- prtnframe = precv_frame;
- /*get ether_type */
- ptr = ptr + pfhdr->attrib.hdrlen +
- pfhdr->attrib.iv_len + LLC_HEADER_SIZE;
- memcpy(&ether_type, ptr, 2);
- ether_type = ntohs((unsigned short)ether_type);
if (ether_type == 0x888e)
prtnframe = precv_frame;
else {