[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "Hostap: copying wrong data prism2_ioctl_giwaplist()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Hostap: copying wrong data prism2_ioctl_giwaplist()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 78bc81a66efb8868592f75b3e12c488fc16cf37e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 12:52:31 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Hostap: copying wrong data prism2_ioctl_giwaplist()

commit 909bd5926d474e275599094acad986af79671ac9 upstream.

We want the data stored in "addr" and "qual", but the extra ampersands
mean we are copying stack data instead.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c
index 18054d9..dbec2ff 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c
@@ -522,9 +522,9 @@ static int prism2_ioctl_giwaplist(struct net_device *dev,

 	data->length = prism2_ap_get_sta_qual(local, addr, qual, IW_MAX_AP, 1);

-	memcpy(extra, &addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr) * data->length);
+	memcpy(extra, addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr) * data->length);
 	data->flags = 1; /* has quality information */
-	memcpy(extra + sizeof(struct sockaddr) * data->length, &qual,
+	memcpy(extra + sizeof(struct sockaddr) * data->length, qual,
 	       sizeof(struct iw_quality) * data->length);

 	kfree(addr);
--
1.8.3.2