pull request: wireless 2012-07-06

From: John W. Linville
Date: Fri Jul 06 2012 - 15:33:24 EST


commit 50787c0dfcffe9be908994bdd7bb28b1a49192b5

Dave,

Please accept these fixes for the 3.5 stream...

Eliad Peller provides a mac80211 fix to properly clean-up after an
association failure.

Sasha Levin offers an NFC fix to prevent a NULL pointer derference
in llcp_sock_getname.

Thomas Huehn provides an mwl8k fix for a race that can result in
a use-after-free bug. Also, he provides a mac80211 fix to correct
some kzalloc arguments, and another fix to address an issue found
with that fix after I had already committed the original patch.

Please let me know if there are problems!

Thanks,

John

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The following changes since commit 9e85a6f9dc231f3ed3c1dc1b12217505d970142a:

Merge tag 'clk-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mturquette/linux (2012-07-03 18:06:49 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:


git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless.git for-davem

for you to fetch changes up to 50787c0dfcffe9be908994bdd7bb28b1a49192b5:

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem (2012-07-06 14:48:50 -0400)

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Eliad Peller (1):
mac80211: destroy assoc_data correctly if assoc fails

John W. Linville (1):
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/.../linville/wireless into for-davem

Sasha Levin (1):
NFC: Prevent NULL deref when getting socket name

Thomas Huehn (3):
mac80211: correct size the argument to kzalloc in minstrel_ht
mwl8k: fix possible race condition in info->control.sta use
mac80211: fix kzalloc memory corruption introduced in minstrel_ht

drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c | 3 ++-
net/mac80211/mlme.c | 6 ++----
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c | 2 +-
net/nfc/llcp/sock.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
index cf7bdc6..1404373 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
@@ -1665,7 +1665,8 @@ 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;
+ sta = ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr(hw, wh->addr1,
+ wh->addr2);
if (sta) {
sta_info = MWL8K_STA(sta);
BUG_ON(sta_info == NULL);
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index a4bb856..0db5d34 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -2174,15 +2174,13 @@ ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
sdata->name, mgmt->sa, status_code);
ieee80211_destroy_assoc_data(sdata, false);
} else {
- printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: associated\n", sdata->name);
-
if (!ieee80211_assoc_success(sdata, *bss, mgmt, len)) {
/* oops -- internal error -- send timeout for now */
- ieee80211_destroy_assoc_data(sdata, true);
- sta_info_destroy_addr(sdata, mgmt->bssid);
+ ieee80211_destroy_assoc_data(sdata, false);
cfg80211_put_bss(*bss);
return RX_MGMT_CFG80211_ASSOC_TIMEOUT;
}
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: associated\n", sdata->name);

/*
* destroy assoc_data afterwards, as otherwise an idle
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
index 2d1acc6..f9e51ef 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ minstrel_ht_alloc_sta(void *priv, struct ieee80211_sta *sta, gfp_t gfp)
max_rates = sband->n_bitrates;
}

- msp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct minstrel_ht_sta), gfp);
+ msp = kzalloc(sizeof(*msp), gfp);
if (!msp)
return NULL;

diff --git a/net/nfc/llcp/sock.c b/net/nfc/llcp/sock.c
index 17a707d..e06d458 100644
--- a/net/nfc/llcp/sock.c
+++ b/net/nfc/llcp/sock.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int llcp_sock_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,

pr_debug("%p\n", sk);

- if (llcp_sock == NULL)
+ if (llcp_sock == NULL || llcp_sock->dev == NULL)
return -EBADFD;

addr->sa_family = AF_NFC;
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John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready.

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