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Johannes Berg 5d24828d05 mac80211: always allocate struct ieee802_11_elems 
As the 802.11 spec evolves, we need to parse more and more
elements. This is causing the struct to grow, and we can no
longer get away with putting it on the stack.

Change the API to always dynamically allocate and return an
allocated pointer that must be kfree()d later.

As an alternative, I contemplated a scheme whereby we'd say
in the code which elements we needed, e.g.

    DECLARE_ELEMENT_PARSER(elems,
                           SUPPORTED_CHANNELS,
                           CHANNEL_SWITCH,
                           EXT(KEY_DELIVERY));

    ieee802_11_parse_elems(..., &elems, ...);

and while I think this is possible and will save us a lot
since most individual places only care about a small subset
of the elements, it ended up being a bit more work since a
lot of places do the parsing and then pass the struct to
other functions, sometimes with multiple levels.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920154009.26caff6b5998.I05ae58768e990e611aee8eca8abefd9d7bc15e05@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2021-09-23 16:27:07 +02:00
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6lowpan 6lowpan: iphc: Fix an off-by-one check of array index 2021-07-22 16:19:03 +02:00
9p net/9p: increase default msize to 128k 2021-09-05 08:36:44 +09:00
802 net: 802: remove dead leftover after ipx driver removal 2021-08-13 16:30:35 -07:00
8021q dev_ioctl: split out ndo_eth_ioctl 2021-07-27 20:11:45 +01:00
appletalk net: socket: rework compat_ifreq_ioctl() 2021-07-23 14:20:25 +01:00
atm
ax25 ax25: use skb_expand_head 2021-08-03 11:21:39 +01:00
batman-adv Kbuild updates for v5.15 2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00
bluetooth TTY / Serial patches for 5.15-rc1 2021-09-01 09:51:16 -07:00
bpf selftests/bpf: Test new __sk_buff field hwtstamp 2021-09-10 23:20:13 +02:00
bpfilter bpfilter: Specify the log level for the kmsg message 2021-06-25 13:13:50 +02:00
bridge net: bridge: mcast: fix vlan port router deadlock 2021-09-03 13:43:19 +01:00
caif net-caif: avoid user-triggerable WARN_ON(1) 2021-09-14 12:51:15 +01:00
can net: Remove redundant if statements 2021-08-05 13:27:50 +01:00
ceph Networking changes for 5.14. 2021-06-30 15:51:09 -07:00
core skbuff: pass the result of data ksize to __build_skb_around 2021-09-22 14:20:01 +01:00
dcb
dccp dccp: don't duplicate ccid when cloning dccp sock 2021-09-08 11:28:35 +01:00
decnet net: Remove redundant if statements 2021-08-05 13:27:50 +01:00
dns_resolver
dsa devlink: Make devlink_register to be void 2021-09-22 14:15:12 +01:00
ethernet move netdev_boot_setup into Space.c 2021-08-03 13:05:26 +01:00
ethtool ethtool: prevent endless loop if eeprom size is smaller than announced 2021-09-14 14:26:47 +01:00
hsr net: hsr: don't check sequence number if tag removal is offloaded 2021-06-16 12:13:01 -07:00
ieee802154 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-08-13 06:41:22 -07:00
ife
ipv4 net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c: remove superfluous header files from sysctl_net_ipv4.c 2021-09-21 11:02:28 +01:00
ipv6 ipv6: delay fib6_sernum increase in fib6_add 2021-09-13 13:00:53 +01:00
iucv net/iucv: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions. 2021-08-09 10:13:32 +01:00
kcm net: sock: introduce sk_error_report 2021-06-29 11:28:21 -07:00
key
l2tp net/l2tp: Fix reference count leak in l2tp_udp_recv_core 2021-09-09 11:00:20 +01:00
l3mdev
lapb
llc net: Remove redundant if statements 2021-08-05 13:27:50 +01:00
mac80211 mac80211: always allocate struct ieee802_11_elems 2021-09-23 16:27:07 +02:00
mac802154 ieee802154: Remove redundant initialization of variable ret 2021-09-07 14:06:08 +01:00
mctp mctp: perform route destruction under RCU read lock 2021-09-08 11:29:16 +01:00
mpls mpls: defer ttl decrement in mpls_forward() 2021-07-23 17:17:56 +01:00
mptcp mptcp: add MPTCP_SUBFLOW_ADDRS getsockopt support 2021-09-18 14:20:01 +01:00
ncsi net/ncsi: add get MAC address command to get Intel i210 MAC address 2021-09-01 17:18:56 -07:00
netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf 2021-09-03 16:20:37 -07:00
netlabel net: fix NULL pointer reference in cipso_v4_doi_free 2021-08-30 12:23:18 +01:00
netlink net: netlink: Remove unused function 2021-07-30 18:35:47 +02:00
netrom net: Remove redundant if statements 2021-08-05 13:27:50 +01:00
nfc nfc: do not break pr_debug() call into separate lines 2021-09-13 14:38:00 +01:00
nsh
openvswitch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-08-19 18:09:18 -07:00
packet net/packet: clarify source of pr_*() messages 2021-09-10 10:00:59 +01:00
phonet net: Remove redundant if statements 2021-08-05 13:27:50 +01:00
psample
qrtr net: qrtr: revert check in qrtr_endpoint_post() 2021-09-02 11:37:02 +01:00
rds net/rds: dma_map_sg is entitled to merge entries 2021-08-18 15:35:50 -07:00
rfkill
rose
rxrpc net: RxRPC: make dependent Kconfig symbols be shown indented 2021-08-18 10:12:11 +01:00
sched net: sched: move and reuse mq_change_real_num_tx() 2021-09-19 13:26:01 +01:00
sctp sctp: move the active_key update after sh_keys is added 2021-08-03 11:43:43 +01:00
smc net/smc: add generic netlink support for system EID 2021-09-14 12:49:10 +01:00
strparser net: sock: introduce sk_error_report 2021-06-29 11:28:21 -07:00
sunrpc Critical bug fixes: 2021-09-08 15:55:42 -07:00
switchdev net: make switchdev_bridge_port_{,unoffload} loosely coupled with the bridge 2021-08-04 12:35:07 +01:00
tipc tipc: increase timeout in tipc_sk_enqueue() 2021-09-13 12:43:10 +01:00
tls net/tls: support SM4 GCM/CCM algorithm 2021-09-16 14:36:26 +01:00
unix net/af_unix: fix a data-race in unix_dgram_poll 2021-09-09 10:57:52 +01:00
vmw_vsock af_vsock: rename variables in receive loop 2021-09-06 02:25:16 -04:00
wireless nl80211: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic 2021-09-23 13:38:11 +02:00
x25
xdp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-06-29 15:45:27 -07:00
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ 2021-08-27 11:16:29 +01:00
compat.c
devres.c
Kconfig mctp: Add MCTP base 2021-07-29 15:06:49 +01:00
Makefile mctp: Add MCTP base 2021-07-29 15:06:49 +01:00
socket.c Core: 2021-08-31 16:43:06 -07:00
sysctl_net.c