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rtlwifi: Fix oops on rate-control failure

When the rate-control indexing is incorrectly set up, mac80211 issues
a warning and returns NULL from the call to ieee80211_get_tx_rate().
When this happens, avoid a NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger 13 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 4 1
      drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c

+ 4 - 1
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c

@@ -838,7 +838,10 @@ void rtl_get_tcb_desc(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	__le16 fc = hdr->frame_control;
 
 	txrate = ieee80211_get_tx_rate(hw, info);
-	tcb_desc->hw_rate = txrate->hw_value;
+	if (txrate)
+		tcb_desc->hw_rate = txrate->hw_value;
+	else
+		tcb_desc->hw_rate = 0;
 
 	if (ieee80211_is_data(fc)) {
 		/*