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mac80211: fix mesh forwarding when ratelimited too
authorMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:01:03 +0000 (02:01 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:46:47 +0000 (14:46 -0800)
commit 919bbad580445801c22ef6ccbe624551fee652bd upstream.

Commit b51aff057c9d0ef6c529dc25fd9f775faf7b6c63 said:

    Under memory pressure, the mac80211 mesh code
    may helpfully print a message that it failed
    to clone a mesh frame and then will proceed
    to crash trying to use it anyway. Fix that.

Avoid the reference whenever the frame copy is unsuccessful
regardless of the debug message being suppressed or printed.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/mac80211/rx.c

index a09196afafaa19d6825d37fbcebf43ef0c859747..2bec9b9dba09f7c3b02024f7bf207ca72c5695d4 100644 (file)
@@ -1712,11 +1712,11 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
 
                        fwd_skb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 
-                       if (!fwd_skb && net_ratelimit()) {
+                       if (!fwd_skb && net_ratelimit())
                                printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: failed to clone mesh frame\n",
                                                   sdata->name);
+                       if (!fwd_skb)
                                goto out;
-                       }
 
                        fwd_hdr =  (struct ieee80211_hdr *) fwd_skb->data;
                        memcpy(fwd_hdr->addr2, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);