linux/include
Denis Kenzior a948f71384 nl80211/mac80211: allow non-linear skb in rx_control_port
The current implementation of cfg80211_rx_control_port assumed that the
caller could provide a contiguous region of memory for the control port
frame to be sent up to userspace.  Unfortunately, many drivers produce
non-linear skbs, especially for data frames.  This resulted in userspace
getting notified of control port frames with correct metadata (from
address, port, etc) yet garbage / nonsense contents, resulting in bad
handshakes, disconnections, etc.

mac80211 linearizes skbs containing management frames.  But it didn't
seem worthwhile to do this for control port frames.  Thus the signature
of cfg80211_rx_control_port was changed to take the skb directly.
nl80211 then takes care of obtaining control port frame data directly
from the (linear | non-linear) skb.

The caller is still responsible for freeing the skb,
cfg80211_rx_control_port does not take ownership of it.

Fixes: 6a671a50f8 ("nl80211: Add CMD_CONTROL_PORT_FRAME API")
Signed-off-by: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
[fix some kernel-doc formatting, add fixes tag]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2018-07-06 14:34:42 +02:00
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acpi ACPI / processor: Finish making acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed() void 2018-06-20 10:50:40 +02:00
asm-generic locking/qspinlock: Fix build for anonymous union in older GCC compilers 2018-06-22 04:19:16 +02:00
clocksource
crypto Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
drm drm for v4.18-rc1 2018-06-06 08:16:33 -07:00
dt-bindings ARM: SoC driver updates 2018-06-11 18:15:22 -07:00
keys docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
kvm
linux Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-07-02 11:18:28 -07:00
math-emu
media
memory
misc ocxl: Expose the thread_id needed for wait on POWER9 2018-06-03 20:40:32 +10:00
net nl80211/mac80211: allow non-linear skb in rx_control_port 2018-07-06 14:34:42 +02:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma 4.18-rc 2018-06-21 07:22:30 +09:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20180610 2018-06-10 13:01:12 -07:00
soc ARM: SoC: late updates 2018-06-11 18:19:45 -07:00
sound sound updates for 4.18 2018-06-06 09:08:38 -07:00
target
trace NFS client updates for Linux 4.18 2018-06-12 10:09:03 -07:00
uapi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-07-02 11:18:28 -07:00
video fbdev changes for v4.18: 2018-06-17 05:00:24 +09:00
xen xen: fixes for 4.18-rc2 2018-06-23 20:44:11 +08:00