Johannes Berg
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When mac80211 changes the channel, it also calls into the driver's bss_info_changed() callback, e.g. with BSS_CHANGED_IDLE. The driver may, like iwlwifi does, access more data from bss_info in that case and iwlwifi accesses the basic_rates bitmap, but if changing from a band with more (basic) rates to one with fewer, an out-of-bounds access of the rate array may result. While we can't avoid having invalid data at some point in time, we can avoid having it while we call the driver - so set up all the data before configuring the channel, and then apply it afterwards. This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195677 Reported-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@datenkhaos.de> Tested-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@datenkhaos.de> Debugged-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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