mac80211: parse Timeout Interval Element using a struct

Instead of open-coding the accesses and length check do
the length check in the IE parser and assign a struct
pointer for use in the remaining code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index d10b5bba3268..e46fea8b972e 100644
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -1955,6 +1955,16 @@ enum ieee80211_timeout_interval_type {
 	WLAN_TIMEOUT_ASSOC_COMEBACK = 3 /* 802.11w */,
 };
 
+/**
+ * struct ieee80211_timeout_interval_ie - Timeout Interval element
+ * @type: type, see &enum ieee80211_timeout_interval_type
+ * @value: timeout interval value
+ */
+struct ieee80211_timeout_interval_ie {
+	u8 type;
+	__le32 value;
+} __packed;
+
 /* BACK action code */
 enum ieee80211_back_actioncode {
 	WLAN_ACTION_ADDBA_REQ = 0,