From 93cf884ebae8bbc70bd054a8c9aa3653a6b9503a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxime Bizon Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:35:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 14/18] allocate more memory for channel switch cmd --- src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c index 090b204..0ce4e96 100644 --- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c +++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c @@ -11236,7 +11236,11 @@ static int nl80211_send_tdls_mgmt(void *priv, const u8 *dst, u8 action_code, if (!dst) return -EINVAL; - msg = nlmsg_alloc(); + /* each interface channel switch request can be sizable as it contains + * a beacon and possibly a probe response. this size varies depending + * on the number of IEs. pre-allocate memory for the nlmsg. this could + * be probably caculated/estimated but 64KiB seems like a sane value */ + msg = nlmsg_alloc_size(64 * 1024); if (!msg) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.9.5