mwifiex: Fix NULL pointer dereference in skb_dequeue()
authorAmitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:48:23 +0000 (18:18 +0530)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Wed, 9 Nov 2016 01:33:25 +0000 (03:33 +0200)
At couple of places in cleanup path, we are just going through the
skb queue and freeing them without unlinking. This leads to a crash
when other thread tries to do skb_dequeue() and use already freed node.

The problem is freed by unlinking skb before freeing it.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/wmm.c

index 39ce76ad00bc052d9dc99d5f1162842dc2dc2f3a..e83861f794adc6e75ca093bf281230955f441a98 100644 (file)
@@ -3070,8 +3070,10 @@ int mwifiex_del_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev)
 
        mwifiex_stop_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, adapter);
 
-       skb_queue_walk_safe(&priv->bypass_txq, skb, tmp)
+       skb_queue_walk_safe(&priv->bypass_txq, skb, tmp) {
+               skb_unlink(skb, &priv->bypass_txq);
                mwifiex_write_data_complete(priv->adapter, skb, 0, -1);
+       }
 
        if (netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev))
                netif_carrier_off(priv->netdev);
index 0eb246502e1d119b03d83874cba3030ac4849092..dea2fe671dfe3ed5b419652476f6206e6acc8198 100644 (file)
@@ -503,8 +503,10 @@ mwifiex_wmm_del_pkts_in_ralist_node(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
        struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter = priv->adapter;
        struct sk_buff *skb, *tmp;
 
-       skb_queue_walk_safe(&ra_list->skb_head, skb, tmp)
+       skb_queue_walk_safe(&ra_list->skb_head, skb, tmp) {
+               skb_unlink(skb, &ra_list->skb_head);
                mwifiex_write_data_complete(adapter, skb, 0, -1);
+       }
 }
 
 /*
@@ -600,11 +602,15 @@ mwifiex_clean_txrx(struct mwifiex_private *priv)
                priv->adapter->if_ops.clean_pcie_ring(priv->adapter);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->wmm.ra_list_spinlock, flags);
 
-       skb_queue_walk_safe(&priv->tdls_txq, skb, tmp)
+       skb_queue_walk_safe(&priv->tdls_txq, skb, tmp) {
+               skb_unlink(skb, &priv->tdls_txq);
                mwifiex_write_data_complete(priv->adapter, skb, 0, -1);
+       }
 
-       skb_queue_walk_safe(&priv->bypass_txq, skb, tmp)
+       skb_queue_walk_safe(&priv->bypass_txq, skb, tmp) {
+               skb_unlink(skb, &priv->bypass_txq);
                mwifiex_write_data_complete(priv->adapter, skb, 0, -1);
+       }
        atomic_set(&priv->adapter->bypass_tx_pending, 0);
 
        idr_for_each(&priv->ack_status_frames, mwifiex_free_ack_frame, NULL);