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| author | Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> | 2012-10-26 00:31:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-11-17 13:14:20 -0800 |
| commit | a699cd395b19aa262fbffcbe79aec1c57238e489 (patch) | |
| tree | 2056991d4b13debe026f89e1e12c37ae8612e3af /drivers/net/wireless/ath | |
| parent | ac7b56f4149a2f0e331a9b640f65aed57ed15eb4 (diff) | |
ath9k: fix stale pointers potentially causing access to free'd skbs
commit 8c6e30936a7893a85f6222084f0f26aceb81137a upstream.
bf->bf_next is only while buffers are chained as part of an A-MPDU
in the tx queue. When a tid queue is flushed (e.g. on tearing down
an aggregation session), frames can be enqueued again as normal
transmission, without bf_next being cleared. This can lead to the
old pointer being dereferenced again later.
This patch might fix crashes and "Failed to stop TX DMA!" messages.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c index 33443bcaa8d..6f6f1002e5d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c @@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ static struct ath_buf *ath_tx_get_buffer(struct ath_softc *sc) } bf = list_first_entry(&sc->tx.txbuf, struct ath_buf, list); + bf->bf_next = NULL; list_del(&bf->list); spin_unlock_bh(&sc->tx.txbuflock); @@ -1488,6 +1489,7 @@ static void ath_tx_send_normal(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq, if (tid) INCR(tid->seq_start, IEEE80211_SEQ_MAX); + bf->bf_next = NULL; bf->bf_lastbf = bf; fi = get_frame_info(bf->bf_mpdu); ath_buf_set_rate(sc, bf, fi->framelen); |