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    mozilla: handle wpa_bss_get_ssid() returning NULL · beb5c134
    Will Thompson authored and Zeeshan Ali Khan's avatar Zeeshan Ali Khan committed
    On my Endless OS system running 2.5.2, I see the following crash
    reasonably often:
    
        #0  0x00007fdc12e57300 in g_bit_lock () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
        #1  0x00007fdc12ec38f7 in g_variant_n_children () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
        #2  0x00005562e11de273 in variant_to_string (variant=0x0, len=len@entry=0x0) at ../src/gclue-mozilla.c:49
                n_bytes = <optimized out>
                i = <optimized out>
                ret = <optimized out>
        #3  0x00005562e11de4f8 in get_ssid_from_bss (bss=0x5562e2c896d0) at ../src/gclue-mozilla.c:71
                variant = <optimized out>
                variant = <optimized out>
        #4  gclue_mozilla_should_ignore_bss (bss=bss@entry=0x5562e2c896d0) at ../src/gclue-mozilla.c:414
                ssid = <optimized out>
                bssid = <optimized out>
        #5  0x00005562e11ddaba in on_bss_proxy_ready (source_object=<optimized out>, res=<optimized out>, user_data=0x5562e2c7a2d0) at ../src/gclue-wifi.c:313
                wifi = 0x5562e2c7a2d0
                bss = 0x5562e2c896d0
                error = 0x0
                ssid = <optimized out>
    
    In frame 2, 'variant' is NULL. In 2.5.2, get_ssid_from_bss looks like
    this:
    
        static gboolean
        get_ssid_from_bss (WPABSS *bss)
        {
                GVariant *variant = wpa_bss_get_ssid (bss);
    
                return variant_to_string (variant, NULL);
        }
    
    Since 2.5.2, bdaf6069 added a NULL check
    to this function – which I think would fix my crash. Then
    3b7a7d2a removed this NULL check again
    without explanation!
    
    It seems that, in practice, wpa_bss_get_ssid() can return NULL, so we
    must handle this case.
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