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authorPontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>2014-01-16 15:00:40 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-02-06 09:55:17 +0100
commitf12cb2893069495726c21a4b0178705dacfecfe0 (patch)
tree5678173217dedde3d552221d9c7c602d50d75a61
parent2f617435c3a6fe3f39efb9ae2baa77de2d6c97b8 (diff)
downloadexperimental-scratch-f12cb2893069495726c21a4b0178705dacfecfe0.tar.gz
nl80211: Reset split_start when netlink skb is exhausted
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. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 3713b4e364ef ("nl80211: allow splitting wiphy information in dumps") Signed-off-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> [avoid the entire workaround when state->split is set] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 7a742594916e17..6ea960b1a8eb77 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -1719,9 +1719,10 @@ 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;
}