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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-11-29 01:25:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-11-30 13:42:20 +0100 |
| commit | 9caf03640279e64d0ba36539b42daa1b43a49486 (patch) | |
| tree | cb094a4a577f61421d1b402e16f0e68f151d5726 /drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c | |
| parent | b9a9ada14aab17f08c1d9735601f1097cdcfc6de (diff) | |
cfg80211: fix BSS struct IE access races
When a BSS struct is updated, the IEs are currently
overwritten or freed. This can lead to races if some
other CPU is accessing the BSS struct and using the
IEs concurrently.
Fix this by always allocating the IEs in a new struct
that holds the data and length and protecting access
to this new struct with RCU.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c index ec36868f6fc5..ec6d5d6b452e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c @@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static int lbs_add_common_rates_tlv(u8 *tlv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss) const u8 *rates_eid, *ext_rates_eid; int n = 0; + rcu_read_lock(); rates_eid = ieee80211_bss_get_ie(bss, WLAN_EID_SUPP_RATES); ext_rates_eid = ieee80211_bss_get_ie(bss, WLAN_EID_EXT_SUPP_RATES); @@ -325,6 +326,7 @@ static int lbs_add_common_rates_tlv(u8 *tlv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss) *tlv++ = 0x96; n = 4; } + rcu_read_unlock(); rate_tlv->header.len = cpu_to_le16(n); return sizeof(rate_tlv->header) + n; @@ -1140,11 +1142,13 @@ static int lbs_associate(struct lbs_private *priv, cmd->capability = cpu_to_le16(bss->capability); /* add SSID TLV */ + rcu_read_lock(); ssid_eid = ieee80211_bss_get_ie(bss, WLAN_EID_SSID); if (ssid_eid) pos += lbs_add_ssid_tlv(pos, ssid_eid + 2, ssid_eid[1]); else lbs_deb_assoc("no SSID\n"); + rcu_read_unlock(); /* add DS param TLV */ if (bss->channel) @@ -1782,7 +1786,7 @@ static int lbs_ibss_join_existing(struct lbs_private *priv, struct cfg80211_ibss_params *params, struct cfg80211_bss *bss) { - const u8 *rates_eid = ieee80211_bss_get_ie(bss, WLAN_EID_SUPP_RATES); + const u8 *rates_eid; struct cmd_ds_802_11_ad_hoc_join cmd; u8 preamble = RADIO_PREAMBLE_SHORT; int ret = 0; @@ -1841,6 +1845,8 @@ static int lbs_ibss_join_existing(struct lbs_private *priv, /* set rates to the intersection of our rates and the rates in the bss */ + rcu_read_lock(); + rates_eid = ieee80211_bss_get_ie(bss, WLAN_EID_SUPP_RATES); if (!rates_eid) { lbs_add_rates(cmd.bss.rates); } else { @@ -1860,6 +1866,7 @@ static int lbs_ibss_join_existing(struct lbs_private *priv, } } } + rcu_read_unlock(); /* Only v8 and below support setting this */ if (MRVL_FW_MAJOR_REV(priv->fwrelease) <= 8) { |