From 4eee6a3a04e8bb53fbe7de0f64d0524d3fbe3f80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:01:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] wimax: i2400m - prevent a possible kernel bug due to missing
fw_name string
This happened on a machine with a custom hotplug script calling nameif,
probably due to slow firmware loading. At the time nameif uses ethtool
to gather interface information, i2400m->fw_name is zero and so a null
pointer dereference occurs from within i2400m_get_drvinfo().
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil.sutter@viprinet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
index 63e4b70..1d76ae8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/netdev.c
@@ -597,7 +597,8 @@ static void i2400m_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *net_dev,
struct i2400m *i2400m = net_dev_to_i2400m(net_dev);
strncpy(info->driver, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(info->driver) - 1);
- strncpy(info->fw_version, i2400m->fw_name, sizeof(info->fw_version) - 1);
+ strncpy(info->fw_version,
+ i2400m->fw_name ? : "", sizeof(info->fw_version) - 1);
if (net_dev->dev.parent)
strncpy(info->bus_info, dev_name(net_dev->dev.parent),
sizeof(info->bus_info) - 1);
--
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