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mac80211: fix an invalid read in minstrel rate sorting

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Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>

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From: Adrien Schildknecht <adrien+dev@schischi.me>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:30:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: fix invalid read in minstrel_sort_best_tp_rates()
At the last iteration of the loop, j may equal zero and thus
tp_list[j - 1] causes an invalid read.
Changed the logic of the loop so that j - 1 is always >= 0.
Signed-off-by: Adrien Schildknecht <adrien+dev@schischi.me>
---
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c
@@ -92,14 +92,15 @@ int minstrel_get_tp_avg(struct minstrel_
static inline void
minstrel_sort_best_tp_rates(struct minstrel_sta_info *mi, int i, u8 *tp_list)
{
- int j = MAX_THR_RATES;
- struct minstrel_rate_stats *tmp_mrs = &mi->r[j - 1].stats;
+ int j;
+ struct minstrel_rate_stats *tmp_mrs;
struct minstrel_rate_stats *cur_mrs = &mi->r[i].stats;
- while (j > 0 && (minstrel_get_tp_avg(&mi->r[i], cur_mrs->prob_ewma) >
- minstrel_get_tp_avg(&mi->r[tp_list[j - 1]], tmp_mrs->prob_ewma))) {
- j--;
+ for (j = MAX_THR_RATES; j > 0; --j) {
tmp_mrs = &mi->r[tp_list[j - 1]].stats;
+ if (minstrel_get_tp_avg(&mi->r[i], cur_mrs->prob_ewma) <=
+ minstrel_get_tp_avg(&mi->r[tp_list[j - 1]], tmp_mrs->prob_ewma))
+ break;
}
if (j < MAX_THR_RATES - 1)