nl80211: Reset split_start when netlink skb is exhausted
commit f12cb289 upstream. When the netlink skb is exhausted split_start is left set. In the subsequent retry, with a larger buffer, the dump is continued from the failing point instead of from the beginning. This was causing my rt28xx based USB dongle to now show up when running "iw list" with an old iw version without split dump support. Fixes: 3713b4e3 ("nl80211: allow splitting wiphy information in dumps") Signed-off-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> [avoid the entire workaround when state->split is set] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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