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authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>2012-10-26 00:31:11 +0200
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-11-16 16:46:59 +0000
commitaba58442cc2198273c9815253030e83ba6f42edc (patch)
treec7002e4025aafa65049dee6b3f33a56e5d44b73e /drivers/net
parent0884603402e58608f62f17306aedb33b862d7b6d (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> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c2
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 c59c592f690..e3f24d2d158 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ 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);
@@ -1710,6 +1711,7 @@ 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;
ath_tx_fill_desc(sc, bf, txq, fi->framelen);
ath_tx_txqaddbuf(sc, txq, &bf_head, false);