Commit cd87a2d3 authored Sep 24, 2010 by Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville Sep 24, 2010

mac80211: fix use-after-free



commit 8c0c709e
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>

parent df6d0230

net/mac80211/rx.c

+0 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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:

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