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authorMichal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>2017-01-13 13:32:51 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2017-01-13 14:47:21 +0100
commitdbef53621116474bb883f76f0ba6b7640bc42332 (patch)
treebf146f634cdb9db11cd5e692512fe08e248a0a98 /net/sched/act_skbedit.c
parent43071d8fb3b7f589d72663c496a6880fb097533c (diff)
downloadlinux-dbef53621116474bb883f76f0ba6b7640bc42332.tar.bz2
mac80211: prevent skb/txq mismatch
Station structure is considered as not uploaded (to driver) until drv_sta_state() finishes. This call is however done after the structure is attached to mac80211 internal lists and hashes. This means mac80211 can lookup (and use) station structure before it is uploaded to a driver. If this happens (structure exists, but sta->uploaded is false) fast_tx path can still be taken. Deep in the fastpath call the sta->uploaded is checked against to derive "pubsta" argument for ieee80211_get_txq(). If sta->uploaded is false (and sta is actually non-NULL) ieee80211_get_txq() effectively downgraded to vif->txq. At first glance this may look innocent but coerces mac80211 into a state that is almost guaranteed (codel may drop offending skb) to crash because a station-oriented skb gets queued up on vif-oriented txq. The ieee80211_tx_dequeue() ends up looking at info->control.flags and tries to use txq->sta which in the fail case is NULL. It's probably pointless to pretend one can downgrade skb from sta-txq to vif-txq. Since downgrading unicast traffic to vif->txq must not be done there's no txq to put a frame on if sta->uploaded is false. Therefore the code is made to fall back to regular tx() op path if the described condition is hit. Only drivers using wake_tx_queue were affected. Example crash dump before fix: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffe26c PC is at ieee80211_tx_dequeue+0x204/0x690 [mac80211] [<bf4252a4>] (ieee80211_tx_dequeue [mac80211]) from [<bf4b1388>] (ath10k_mac_tx_push_txq+0x54/0x1c0 [ath10k_core]) [<bf4b1388>] (ath10k_mac_tx_push_txq [ath10k_core]) from [<bf4bdfbc>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task+0xd78/0x11d0 [ath10k_core]) [<bf4bdfbc>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task [ath10k_core]) [<bf51c5a4>] (ath10k_pci_napi_poll+0x54/0xe8 [ath10k_pci]) [<bf51c5a4>] (ath10k_pci_napi_poll [ath10k_pci]) from [<c0572e90>] (net_rx_action+0xac/0x160) Reported-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qti.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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