[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "staging: r8712u: Fix case where ethtype was never obtained and always be checked against 0" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    staging: r8712u: Fix case where ethtype was never obtained and always be checked against 0

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 9ad43fa5c29bbd6404717f9547748a721c4eab69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:49:33 -0500
Subject: staging: r8712u: Fix case where ethtype was never obtained and always
 be checked against 0

commit f764cd68d9036498f08fe8834deb6a367b5c2542 upstream.

Zero-initializing ether_type masked that the ether type would never be
obtained for 8021x packets and the comparison against eapol_type
would always fail.

Reported-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
index 23ec684..274c359 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ union recv_frame *r8712_portctrl(struct _adapter *adapter,
 	struct sta_info *psta;
 	struct	sta_priv *pstapriv;
 	union recv_frame *prtnframe;
-	u16 ether_type = 0;
+	u16 ether_type;

 	pstapriv = &adapter->stapriv;
 	ptr = get_recvframe_data(precv_frame);
@@ -263,15 +263,14 @@ union recv_frame *r8712_portctrl(struct _adapter *adapter,
 	psta = r8712_get_stainfo(pstapriv, psta_addr);
 	auth_alg = adapter->securitypriv.AuthAlgrthm;
 	if (auth_alg == 2) {
+		/* get ether_type */
+		ptr = ptr + pfhdr->attrib.hdrlen + LLC_HEADER_SIZE;
+		memcpy(&ether_type, ptr, 2);
+		ether_type = ntohs((unsigned short)ether_type);
+
 		if ((psta != NULL) && (psta->ieee8021x_blocked)) {
 			/* blocked
 			 * only accept EAPOL frame */
-			prtnframe = precv_frame;
-			/*get ether_type */
-			ptr = ptr + pfhdr->attrib.hdrlen +
-			      pfhdr->attrib.iv_len + LLC_HEADER_SIZE;
-			memcpy(&ether_type, ptr, 2);
-			ether_type = ntohs((unsigned short)ether_type);
 			if (ether_type == 0x888e)
 				prtnframe = precv_frame;
 			else {
--
1.9.1