From 91fa558ba28b0014205f2c1a75b1cceb4298aa04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "John W. Linville" Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:14:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] mac80211: avoid null ptr deref in ieee80211_ibss_add_sta avoid sdata null pointer dereference in ieee80211_ibss_add_sta. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c index dbac8583f394..9f30ae4c2ab3 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c @@ -2997,7 +2997,7 @@ struct sta_info * ieee80211_ibss_add_sta(struct net_device *dev, { struct ieee80211_local *local = wdev_priv(dev->ieee80211_ptr); struct sta_info *sta; - struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = NULL; + struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev); /* TODO: Could consider removing the least recently used entry and * allow new one to be added. */