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1 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 7a7b621d45f..d44ab216c0e 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ static int nl80211_send_wiphy(struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid, u32 seq, int flag
static int nl80211_dump_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
{
- int idx = 0;
+ int idx = 0, ret;
int start = cb->args[0];
struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev;
@@ -1317,9 +1317,29 @@ static int nl80211_dump_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
continue;
if (++idx <= start)
continue;
- if (nl80211_send_wiphy(skb, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
- cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, NLM_F_MULTI,
- dev) < 0) {
+ ret = nl80211_send_wiphy(skb, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
+ cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, NLM_F_MULTI,
+ dev);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ /*
+ * If sending the wiphy data didn't fit (ENOBUFS or
+ * EMSGSIZE returned), this SKB is still empty (so
+ * it's not too big because another wiphy dataset is
+ * already in the skb) and we've not tried to adjust
+ * the dump allocation yet ... then adjust the alloc
+ * size to be bigger, and return 1 but with the empty
+ * skb. This results in an empty message being RX'ed
+ * in userspace, but that is ignored.
+ *
+ * We can then retry with the larger buffer.
+ */
+ if ((ret == -ENOBUFS || ret == -EMSGSIZE) &&
+ !skb->len &&
+ cb->min_dump_alloc < 4096) {
+ cb->min_dump_alloc = 4096;
+ mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex);
+ return 1;
+ }
idx--;
break;
}
@@ -1336,7 +1356,7 @@ static int nl80211_get_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
struct sk_buff *msg;
struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev = info->user_ptr[0];
- msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ msg = nlmsg_new(4096, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!msg)
return -ENOMEM;