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Merge tag 'mac80211-for-davem-2016-04-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211

Johannes Berg says:

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This has just the single fix from Dmitry Ivanov, adding the missing
netlink notifier family check to avoid the socket close DoS problem.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller 9 years ago
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      net/wireless/nl80211.c

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net/wireless/nl80211.c

@@ -13216,7 +13216,7 @@ static int nl80211_netlink_notify(struct notifier_block * nb,
 	struct wireless_dev *wdev;
 	struct cfg80211_beacon_registration *reg, *tmp;
 
-	if (state != NETLINK_URELEASE)
+	if (state != NETLINK_URELEASE || notify->protocol != NETLINK_GENERIC)
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();