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| author | Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> | 2012-07-11 13:21:41 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-07-11 16:24:55 -0400 |
| commit | 89e1180121f281af16855d4954b9fe3d7354fe73 (patch) | |
| tree | 938aa107885c2a1664e8fdcd21f174b98ea2c162 /drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c | |
| parent | 7c41f3159ca4f04dfc22c791fd96d3d057dcaf90 (diff) | |
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mwl8k: fix possible race condition in info->control.sta use
info->control.sta may only be dereferenced during the drv_tx call otherwise
could lead to use-after-free bugs
Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c index cf7bdc66f822..224e03ade145 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c @@ -1665,7 +1665,9 @@ mwl8k_txq_reclaim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, int limit, int force) info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb); if (ieee80211_is_data(wh->frame_control)) { - sta = info->control.sta; + rcu_read_lock(); + sta = ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr(hw, wh->addr1, + wh->addr2); if (sta) { sta_info = MWL8K_STA(sta); BUG_ON(sta_info == NULL); @@ -1682,6 +1684,7 @@ mwl8k_txq_reclaim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, int limit, int force) sta_info->is_ampdu_allowed = true; } } + rcu_read_unlock(); } ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status(info); |
