[PATCH] libertas: fix scan result loss if SSID IE len 0

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Sun Feb 16 18:25:53 EST 2014


Scan results from Marvell 8388 and 8686 have probe responses from
hidden APs and OLPC XO-1 mesh with a zero length SSID IE.

Bug in lbs_ret_scan discarded any remaining BSS in scan response,
leading to user not seeing APs in dense environments.

With LBS_DEB_SCAN, dmesg shows

libertas scan: scan response: 5 BSSs (419 bytes); resp size 474 bytes
libertas scan: scan: 00:1a:2b:84:de:e8, capa 0401, chan  1, qz, -51 dBm
libertas scan: scan: 5c:63:bf:d8:eb:0c, capa 0411, chan  1, qw129, -23 dBm
libertas scan: scan response: invalid IE fmt

With LBS_DEB_HEX, dmesg shows valid BSS in scan response were not
processed.

Change is to ignore zero length IE and continue processing.

Fixes OLPC 12757, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12757

Signed-off-by: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
Reported-by: T Gillett <tgillett at gmail.com>
Tested-by: T Gillett <tgillett at gmail.com>
CC: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
index 32f7500..cb6d189 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ static int lbs_ret_scan(struct lbs_private *priv, unsigned long dummy,
 			id = *pos++;
 			elen = *pos++;
 			left -= 2;
-			if (elen > left || elen == 0) {
+			if (elen > left) {
 				lbs_deb_scan("scan response: invalid IE fmt\n");
 				goto done;
 			}
-- 
1.8.1.2


-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/



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