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mac80211: fix use-after-free

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commit 8c0c709eea
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Wed Nov 25 17:46:15 2009 +0100

    mac80211: move cmntr flag out of rx flags

moved the CMTR flag into the skb's status, and
in doing so introduced a use-after-free -- when
the skb has been handed to cooked monitors the
status setting will touch now invalid memory.

Additionally, moving it there has effectively
discarded the optimisation -- since the bit is
only ever set on freed SKBs, and those were a
copy, it could never be checked.

For the current release, fixing this properly
is a bit too involved, so let's just remove the
problematic code and leave userspace with one
copy of each frame for each virtual interface.

Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.33+]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg 2010-09-24 11:20:47 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent df6d02300f
commit cd87a2d3a3
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net/mac80211/rx.c
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@ -2199,9 +2199,6 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_cooked_monitor(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx,
struct net_device *prev_dev = NULL;
struct ieee80211_rx_status *status = IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb);
if (status->flag & RX_FLAG_INTERNAL_CMTR)
goto out_free_skb;
if (skb_headroom(skb) < sizeof(*rthdr) &&
pskb_expand_head(skb, sizeof(*rthdr), 0, GFP_ATOMIC))
goto out_free_skb;
@ -2260,7 +2257,6 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_cooked_monitor(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx,
} else
goto out_free_skb;
status->flag |= RX_FLAG_INTERNAL_CMTR;
return;
out_free_skb: