[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "cfg80211: wext: clear sinfo struct before calling driver" 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: wext: clear sinfo struct before calling driver

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt3.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 30280681b27286e2f8a460665597b1257baf110c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 21:35:44 +0200
Subject: cfg80211: wext: clear sinfo struct before calling driver

commit 9c5a18a31b321f120efda412281bb9f610f84aa0 upstream.

Until recently, mac80211 overwrote all the statistics it could
provide when getting called, but it now relies on the struct
having been zeroed by the caller. This was always the case in
nl80211, but wext used a static struct which could even cause
values from one device leak to another.

Using a static struct is OK (as even documented in a comment)
since the whole usage of this function and its return value is
always locked under RTNL. Not clearing the struct for calling
the driver has always been wrong though, since drivers were
free to only fill values they could report, so calling this
for one device and then for another would always have leaked
values from one to the other.

Fix this by initializing the structure in question before the
driver method call.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691

Reported-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit at erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Reported-by: Alexander Kaltsas <alexkaltsas at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/wireless/wext-compat.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-compat.c b/net/wireless/wext-compat.c
index 0f47948..d2c77d5 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-compat.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-compat.c
@@ -1333,6 +1333,8 @@ static struct iw_statistics *cfg80211_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev)
 	memcpy(bssid, wdev->current_bss->pub.bssid, ETH_ALEN);
 	wdev_unlock(wdev);

+	memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
+
 	if (rdev_get_station(rdev, dev, bssid, &sinfo))
 		return NULL;

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1.9.1