Commit d2460f4b authored Jan 03, 2011 by Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville Jan 04, 2011

mac80211: add missing synchronize_rcu



commit ad0e2b5a
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 1 10:19:19 2010 +0200

    mac80211: simplify key locking

removed the synchronization against RCU and thus
opened a race window where we can use a key for
TX while it is already freed. Put a synchronisation
into the right place to close that window.

Reported-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.36+]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 919bbad5

net/mac80211/key.c

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -366,6 +366,12 @@ static void __ieee80211_key_destroy(struct ieee80211_key *key)
		if (!key)
		return;

		/*
		* Synchronize so the TX path can no longer be using
		* this key before we free/remove it.
		*/
		synchronize_rcu();

		if (key->local)
		ieee80211_key_disable_hw_accel(key);

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