[PATCH] dbus_new_handlers: Don't send NULL to dbus_message_new_error
Jouni Malinen
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Sat Oct 9 07:31:04 PDT 2010
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:07:23PM -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:
> The new DBus API helper function wpas_dbus_error_unknown_error
> function can be called as a result of a failure within internal
> getter calls, which will call this function with a NULL message
> parameter. However, dbus_message_new_error looks very unkindly
> (i.e, abort()) on a NULL message, so in this case, we should not
> call it.
>
> I've observed this course of events during a call to
> wpas_dbus_getter_bss_wpa with a faileld parse of the IE parameter.
> We got here through a call to fill_dict_with_properties which
> explicitly calls getters with a NULL message parameter. Judging
> from the way it is called, this could easily occur if an AP sends
> out a malformed (or mis-received) probe response. I usually run
> into this problem while driving through San Francisco, so I'm
> exposed to any number of base stations along this path.
Thanks! Applied (with a debug print showing that this has happened).
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