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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2021-09-20 15:40:10 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2021-09-23 16:27:07 +0200
commit5d24828d05f37ad770599de00b53d5386e35aa61 (patch)
tree830777beb40a6edffaaca20804e173c85e134b78 /net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
parent49a765d6785e99157ff5091cc37485732496864e (diff)
mac80211: always allocate struct ieee802_11_elems
As the 802.11 spec evolves, we need to parse more and more elements. This is causing the struct to grow, and we can no longer get away with putting it on the stack. Change the API to always dynamically allocate and return an allocated pointer that must be kfree()d later. As an alternative, I contemplated a scheme whereby we'd say in the code which elements we needed, e.g. DECLARE_ELEMENT_PARSER(elems, SUPPORTED_CHANNELS, CHANNEL_SWITCH, EXT(KEY_DELIVERY)); ieee802_11_parse_elems(..., &elems, ...); and while I think this is possible and will save us a lot since most individual places only care about a small subset of the elements, it ended up being a bit more work since a lot of places do the parsing and then pass the struct to other functions, sometimes with multiple levels. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920154009.26caff6b5998.I05ae58768e990e611aee8eca8abefd9d7bc15e05@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
index a6915847d78a..a829470dd59e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
* Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 open80211s Ltd.
- * Copyright (C) 2019 Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright (C) 2019, 2021 Intel Corporation
* Author: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
*/
#include <linux/gfp.h>
@@ -1200,7 +1200,7 @@ void mesh_rx_plink_frame(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt, size_t len,
struct ieee80211_rx_status *rx_status)
{
- struct ieee802_11_elems elems;
+ struct ieee802_11_elems *elems;
size_t baselen;
u8 *baseaddr;
@@ -1228,7 +1228,8 @@ void mesh_rx_plink_frame(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
if (baselen > len)
return;
}
- ieee802_11_parse_elems(baseaddr, len - baselen, true, &elems,
- mgmt->bssid, NULL);
- mesh_process_plink_frame(sdata, mgmt, &elems, rx_status);
+ elems = ieee802_11_parse_elems(baseaddr, len - baselen, true,
+ mgmt->bssid, NULL);
+ mesh_process_plink_frame(sdata, mgmt, elems, rx_status);
+ kfree(elems);
}