commit 088c87262bbc39a01ebcd70817d35616785908b1
author John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Thu Jul 15 16:16:17 2010 -0400
committer John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Fri Jul 16 14:03:42 2010 -0400
tree 3ebb99b80645eaffa2ad04c9f11708f6694d24a1
parent 48d5548fc5e5ad79ca98a287b67f403834929739

mac80211: improve error checking if WEP fails to init

Do this by poisoning the values of wep_tx_tfm and wep_rx_tfm if either
crypto allocation fails.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

net/mac80211/wep.c

diff --git a/net/mac80211/wep.c b/net/mac80211/wep.c
index 6d133b6..9ebc8d8 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wep.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wep.c
@@ -32,13 +32,16 @@
 
 	local->wep_tx_tfm = crypto_alloc_blkcipher("ecb(arc4)", 0,
 						CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC);
-	if (IS_ERR(local->wep_tx_tfm))
+	if (IS_ERR(local->wep_tx_tfm)) {
+		local->wep_rx_tfm = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 		return PTR_ERR(local->wep_tx_tfm);
+	}
 
 	local->wep_rx_tfm = crypto_alloc_blkcipher("ecb(arc4)", 0,
 						CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC);
 	if (IS_ERR(local->wep_rx_tfm)) {
 		crypto_free_blkcipher(local->wep_tx_tfm);
+		local->wep_tx_tfm = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 		return PTR_ERR(local->wep_rx_tfm);
 	}