alignment is not taken care in accessing pairwise cipher and AKM suite
count which are parsed from rsn ie. Fix this alignment issue.
Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
index fb73196..707c299 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c
@@ -2546,14 +2546,14 @@ static int ath6kl_get_rsn_capab(struct cfg80211_beacon_data *beacon,
/* skip pairwise cipher suite */
if (rsn_ie_len < 2)
return -EINVAL;
- cnt = *((u16 *) rsn_ie);
+ cnt = get_unaligned_le16(rsn_ie);
rsn_ie += (2 + cnt * 4);
rsn_ie_len -= (2 + cnt * 4);
/* skip akm suite */
if (rsn_ie_len < 2)
return -EINVAL;
- cnt = *((u16 *) rsn_ie);
+ cnt = get_unaligned_le16(rsn_ie);
rsn_ie += (2 + cnt * 4);
rsn_ie_len -= (2 + cnt * 4);
--
1.7.0.4
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