Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/main.c
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David S. Miller
2010-09-09 22:27:33 -07:00
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@@ -782,6 +782,22 @@ static int ioctl_standard_iw_point(struct iw_point *iwp, unsigned int cmd,
}
}
if (IW_IS_GET(cmd) && !(descr->flags & IW_DESCR_FLAG_NOMAX)) {
/*
* If this is a GET, but not NOMAX, it means that the extra
* data is not bounded by userspace, but by max_tokens. Thus
* set the length to max_tokens. This matches the extra data
* allocation.
* The driver should fill it with the number of tokens it
* provided, and it may check iwp->length rather than having
* knowledge of max_tokens. If the driver doesn't change the
* iwp->length, this ioctl just copies back max_token tokens
* filled with zeroes. Hopefully the driver isn't claiming
* them to be valid data.
*/
iwp->length = descr->max_tokens;
}
err = handler(dev, info, (union iwreq_data *) iwp, extra);
iwp->length += essid_compat;