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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2017-01-02 11:19:29 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-01-12 11:39:07 +0100
commit5e7598a625eead50e6d783797de828fe22e86f25 (patch)
treeac6e4d45ccfd7a2f2a158d5292366d221445e02c /net/mac80211
parent3c4eef31670361212d4f762c9420fa9a4ff160c0 (diff)
mac80211: initialize fast-xmit 'info' later
commit 35f432a03e41d3bf08c51ede917f94e2288fbe8c upstream. In ieee80211_xmit_fast(), 'info' is initialized to point to the skb that's passed in, but that skb may later be replaced by a clone (if it was shared), leading to an invalid pointer. This can lead to use-after-free and also later crashes since the real SKB's info->hw_queue doesn't get initialized properly. Fix this by assigning info only later, when it's needed, after the skb replacement (may have) happened. Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/tx.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index bd5f4be89435..dd190ff3daea 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -3262,7 +3262,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_xmit_fast(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
int extra_head = fast_tx->hdr_len - (ETH_HLEN - 2);
int hw_headroom = sdata->local->hw.extra_tx_headroom;
struct ethhdr eth;
- struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
+ struct ieee80211_tx_info *info;
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (void *)fast_tx->hdr;
struct ieee80211_tx_data tx;
ieee80211_tx_result r;
@@ -3326,6 +3326,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_xmit_fast(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
memcpy(skb->data + fast_tx->da_offs, eth.h_dest, ETH_ALEN);
memcpy(skb->data + fast_tx->sa_offs, eth.h_source, ETH_ALEN);
+ info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info));
info->band = fast_tx->band;
info->control.vif = &sdata->vif;