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authorJames Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>2017-04-24 12:40:50 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-05-15 09:19:08 +0200
commitb8ebb5f3b1c23cf92da042cfcbdcfe265fbc6341 (patch)
tree99819e2521a300720710ec2a18a2d8c5f3e4f640 /drivers/net/wireless
parent4a60f8b1dc6bac8f56e37150e30e0fa784ecf62a (diff)
brcmfmac: Ensure pointer correctly set if skb data location changes
commit 455a1eb4654c24560eb9dfc634f29cba3d87601e upstream. The incoming skb header may be resized if header space is insufficient, which might change the data adddress in the skb. Ensure that a cached pointer to that data is correctly set by moving assignment to after any possible changes. Signed-off-by: James Hughes <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
index fb1043908a23..26dae2808257 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t brcmf_netdev_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
int ret;
struct brcmf_if *ifp = netdev_priv(ndev);
struct brcmf_pub *drvr = ifp->drvr;
- struct ethhdr *eh = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data);
+ struct ethhdr *eh;
brcmf_dbg(DATA, "Enter, idx=%d\n", ifp->bssidx);
@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t brcmf_netdev_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
goto done;
}
+ eh = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data);
+
if (eh->h_proto == htons(ETH_P_PAE))
atomic_inc(&ifp->pend_8021x_cnt);