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mac80211: Don't request encryption for probe response 

Probe responses shouldn't be encrypted, and mac80211 doesn't
set the crypto key accordingly. However it didn't set the
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT flag which means drivers
could make an attempt to encrypt it, and causing a NULL
pointer dereference when accessing the provided hw_key field.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Ivo van Doorn 2008-07-01 10:45:13 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 8fa7425c63
commit b2898a2780
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@ -2481,6 +2481,7 @@ static int ieee80211_sta_join_ibss(struct net_device *dev,
control->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SHORT_PREAMBLE;
control->antenna_sel_tx = local->hw.conf.antenna_sel_tx;
control->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK;
control->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT;
control->control.retry_limit = 1;
ifsta->probe_resp = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);