brcmfmac: allow firmware-signal tlv to be longer than specified

The firmware-signal API specification defines length for the different
tlv. During testing on different devices it turned out not all firmware
used the tlv length according specification. Therefore the length check
is made less strict with this patch.

Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c
index 5352dc1fdf3ca6c03b48e4c27952d32da25eaa2f..d6f05ae85de37bd736351862488a1ae2f7241673 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ int brcmf_fws_hdrpull(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, int ifidx, s16 signal_len,
                if (data_len < len + 2)
                        break;
 
-               if (len != brcmf_fws_get_tlv_len(fws, type))
+               if (len < brcmf_fws_get_tlv_len(fws, type))
                        break;
 
                err = BRCMF_FWS_RET_OK_NOSCHEDULE;