Patch "brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
brcmfmac-fix-pmksa-bssid-usage.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Nicolas Iooss <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:37:17 +0200
Subject: brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

From: Nicolas Iooss <[email protected]>

commit 7703773ef1d85b40433902a8da20167331597e4a upstream.

The struct cfg80211_pmksa defines its bssid field as:

    const u8 *bssid;

contrary to struct brcmf_pmksa, which uses:

    u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];

Therefore in brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(), &pmksa->bssid takes the address of this field (of type u8**), not the one of its content (which would be u8*). Remove the & operator to make brcmf_dbg("%pM") and memcmp() behave as expected.

This bug have been found using a custom static checker (which checks the usage of %p... attributes at build time). It has been introduced in commit 6c404f34f2bd ("brcmfmac: Cleanup pmksa cache handling code"), which replaced pmksa->bssid by &pmksa->bssid while refactoring the code, without modifying struct cfg80211_pmksa definition.

Replace &pmk[i].bssid with pmk[i].bssid too to make the code clearer, this change does not affect the semantic.

---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -3884,11 +3884,11 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_del_pmksa(struct wiphy *w
 	if (!check_vif_up(ifp->vif))
 		return -EIO;
 
-	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", &pmksa->bssid);
+	brcmf_dbg(CONN, "del_pmksa - PMK bssid = %pM\n", pmksa->bssid);
 
 	npmk = le32_to_cpu(cfg->pmk_list.npmk);
 	for (i = 0; i < npmk; i++)
-		if (!memcmp(&pmksa->bssid, &pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
+		if (!memcmp(pmksa->bssid, pmk[i].bssid, ETH_ALEN))
 			break;
 
 	if ((npmk > 0) && (i < npmk)) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/asoc-intel-atom-add-a-missing-star-in-a-memcpy-call.patch queue-4.8/brcmfmac-fix-pmksa-bssid-usage.patch