tree 1ba535ee0609b4a2c6ded7d89eedb1e72b0c56e4
parent 542233bd738e18de4d5a5a2ccbf57f363e06a08b
author Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> 1564181278 -0700
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1566723098 +0200

mac80211: don't WARN on short WMM parameters from AP

commit 05aaa5c97dce4c10a9e7eae2f1569a684e0c5ced upstream.

In a very similar spirit to commit c470bdc1aaf3 ("mac80211: don't WARN
on bad WMM parameters from buggy APs"), an AP may not transmit a
fully-formed WMM IE. For example, it may miss or repeat an Access
Category. The above loop won't catch that and will instead leave one of
the four ACs zeroed out. This triggers the following warning in
drv_conf_tx()

  wlan0: invalid CW_min/CW_max: 0/0

and it may leave one of the hardware queues unconfigured. If we detect
such a case, let's just print a warning and fall back to the defaults.

Tested with a hacked version of hostapd, intentionally corrupting the
IEs in hostapd_eid_wmm().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190726224758.210953-1-briannorris@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>