[PATCH review for 4.9 06/50] mac80211_hwsim: check HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME length

2017-09-24 Thread Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
From: Johannes Berg [ Upstream commit ff4dd73dd2b4806419f8ff65cbce11d5019548d0 ] Unfortunately, the nla policy was defined to have HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME as an NLA_STRING, rather than NLA_NUL_STRING, so we can't use it as a NUL-terminated string in the kernel. Rather

[PATCH review for 4.9 06/50] mac80211_hwsim: check HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME length

2017-09-24 Thread Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
From: Johannes Berg [ Upstream commit ff4dd73dd2b4806419f8ff65cbce11d5019548d0 ] Unfortunately, the nla policy was defined to have HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME as an NLA_STRING, rather than NLA_NUL_STRING, so we can't use it as a NUL-terminated string in the kernel. Rather than break the API,