[PATCH 4.14 126/156] staging: rtl8188eu: Fix incorrect response to SIOCGIWESSID

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Feb 02 2018 - 12:50:08 EST


4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit b77992d2df9e47144354d1b25328b180afa33442 ]

When not associated with an AP, wifi device drivers should respond to the
SIOCGIWESSID ioctl with a zero-length string for the SSID, which is the
behavior expected by dhcpcd.

Currently, this driver returns an error code (-1) from the ioctl call,
which causes dhcpcd to assume that the device is not a wireless interface
and therefore it fails to work correctly with it thereafter.

This problem was reported and tested at
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/issues/234.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 14 ++++----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -1395,19 +1395,13 @@ static int rtw_wx_get_essid(struct net_d
if ((check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_LINKED)) ||
(check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, WIFI_ADHOC_MASTER_STATE))) {
len = pcur_bss->Ssid.SsidLength;
-
- wrqu->essid.length = len;
-
memcpy(extra, pcur_bss->Ssid.Ssid, len);
-
- wrqu->essid.flags = 1;
} else {
- ret = -1;
- goto exit;
+ len = 0;
+ *extra = 0;
}
-
-exit:
-
+ wrqu->essid.length = len;
+ wrqu->essid.flags = 1;

return ret;
}