[PATCH 3.11 070/121] nl80211: Reset split_start when netlink skb is exhausted

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Feb 21 12:48:14 UTC 2014


3.11.10.5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs at gmail.com>

commit f12cb2893069495726c21a4b0178705dacfecfe0 upstream.

When the netlink skb is exhausted split_start is left set. In the
subsequent retry, with a larger buffer, the dump is continued from the
failing point instead of from the beginning.

This was causing my rt28xx based USB dongle to now show up when
running "iw list" with an old iw version without split dump support.

Fixes: 3713b4e364ef ("nl80211: allow splitting wiphy information in dumps")
Signed-off-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs at gmail.com>
[avoid the entire workaround when state->split is set]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 7956f41..95b8565 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -1613,9 +1613,10 @@ static int nl80211_dump_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 				 * We can then retry with the larger buffer.
 				 */
 				if ((ret == -ENOBUFS || ret == -EMSGSIZE) &&
-				    !skb->len &&
+				    !skb->len && !state->split &&
 				    cb->min_dump_alloc < 4096) {
 					cb->min_dump_alloc = 4096;
+					state->split_start = 0;
 					rtnl_unlock();
 					return 1;
 				}
-- 
1.9.0





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