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authorThomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>2012-07-11 13:21:41 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-07-11 22:24:55 +0200
commit89e1180121f281af16855d4954b9fe3d7354fe73 (patch)
tree938aa107885c2a1664e8fdcd21f174b98ea2c162 /drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
parentmac80211: Fix the Problem of Unreachable Mesh STA from DS (diff)
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mwl8k: fix possible race condition in info->control.sta use
info->control.sta may only be dereferenced during the drv_tx call otherwise could lead to use-after-free bugs Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
index cf7bdc66f822..224e03ade145 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
@@ -1665,7 +1665,9 @@ mwl8k_txq_reclaim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, int limit, int force)
info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
if (ieee80211_is_data(wh->frame_control)) {
- sta = info->control.sta;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ sta = ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr(hw, wh->addr1,
+ wh->addr2);
if (sta) {
sta_info = MWL8K_STA(sta);
BUG_ON(sta_info == NULL);
@@ -1682,6 +1684,7 @@ mwl8k_txq_reclaim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index, int limit, int force)
sta_info->is_ampdu_allowed = true;
}
}
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status(info);