[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "cfg80211: check wdev->netdev in connection work" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cfg80211: check wdev->netdev in connection work

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d070c0a4f8d8d12afa359d06d9edb5639865beef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:10:21 +0200
Subject: cfg80211: check wdev->netdev in connection work

commit c815797663b72e3ac1736f1886538152bc48e4af upstream.

If a P2P-Device is present and another virtual interface triggers
the connection work, the system crash because it tries to check
if the P2P-Device's netdev (which doesn't exist) is up. Skip any
wdevs that have no netdev to fix this.

Reported-by: YanBo <dreamfly281 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/wireless/sme.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/wireless/sme.c b/net/wireless/sme.c
index f2431e4..d547d2f 100644
--- a/net/wireless/sme.c
+++ b/net/wireless/sme.c
@@ -224,6 +224,9 @@ void cfg80211_conn_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	mutex_lock(&rdev->devlist_mtx);

 	list_for_each_entry(wdev, &rdev->wdev_list, list) {
+		if (!wdev->netdev)
+			continue;
+
 		wdev_lock(wdev);
 		if (!netif_running(wdev->netdev)) {
 			wdev_unlock(wdev);
--
1.8.1.2