mac80211: fix spurious delBA handling

Lennert Buytenhek noticed that delBA handling in mac80211
was broken and has remotely triggerable problems, some of
which are due to some code shuffling I did that ended up
changing the order in which things were done -- this was

  commit d75636ef9c1af224f1097941879d5a8db7cd04e5
  Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
  Date:   Tue Feb 10 21:25:53 2009 +0100

    mac80211: RX aggregation: clean up stop session

and other parts were already present in the original

  commit d92684e66091c0f0101819619b315b4bb8b5bcc5
  Author: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
  Date:   Mon Jan 28 14:07:22 2008 +0200

      mac80211: A-MPDU Tx add delBA from recipient support

The first problem is that I moved a BUG_ON before various
checks -- thereby making it possible to hit. As the comment
indicates, the BUG_ON can be removed since the ampdu_action
callback must already exist when the state is != IDLE.

The second problem isn't easily exploitable but there's a
race condition due to unconditionally setting the state to
OPERATIONAL when a delBA frame is received, even when no
aggregation session was ever initiated. All the drivers
accept stopping the session even then, but that opens a
race window where crashes could happen before the driver
accepts it. Right now, a WARN_ON may happen with non-HT
drivers, while the race opens only for HT drivers.

For this case, there are two things necessary to fix it:
 1) don't process spurious delBA frames, and be more careful
    about the session state; don't drop the lock

 2) HT drivers need to be prepared to handle a session stop
    even before the session was really started -- this is
    true for all drivers (that support aggregation) but
    iwlwifi which can be fixed easily. The other HT drivers
    (ath9k and ar9170) are behaving properly already.

Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
index 63224d1ee8dd..89e238b001de 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c
@@ -123,13 +123,18 @@ void ieee80211_send_bar(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *ra, u16 tid, u1
 	ieee80211_tx_skb(sdata, skb, 0);
 }
 
-static int ___ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session(struct sta_info *sta, u16 tid,
-					   enum ieee80211_back_parties initiator)
+int ___ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session(struct sta_info *sta, u16 tid,
+				    enum ieee80211_back_parties initiator)
 {
 	struct ieee80211_local *local = sta->local;
 	int ret;
 	u8 *state;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG
+	printk(KERN_DEBUG "Tx BA session stop requested for %pM tid %u\n",
+	       sta->sta.addr, tid);
+#endif /* CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG */
+
 	state = &sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_state_tx[tid];
 
 	if (*state == HT_AGG_STATE_OPERATIONAL)
@@ -143,7 +148,6 @@ static int ___ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session(struct sta_info *sta, u16 tid,
 
 	/* HW shall not deny going back to legacy */
 	if (WARN_ON(ret)) {
-		*state = HT_AGG_STATE_OPERATIONAL;
 		/*
 		 * We may have pending packets get stuck in this case...
 		 * Not bothering with a workaround for now.
@@ -525,11 +529,6 @@ int __ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session(struct sta_info *sta, u16 tid,
 		goto unlock;
 	}
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG
-	printk(KERN_DEBUG "Tx BA session stop requested for %pM tid %u\n",
-	       sta->sta.addr, tid);
-#endif /* CONFIG_MAC80211_HT_DEBUG */
-
 	ret = ___ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_session(sta, tid, initiator);
 
  unlock: