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authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>2014-09-10 18:05:42 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-09-12 17:51:25 -0400
commitbf7fa551e0ce507b82935055f4b4aa229be73eeb (patch)
tree88068940307b6369cc1f6a2b346f6a070949f4bd /net/core/skbuff.c
parentskb: Add documentation for skb_clone_sk (diff)
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mac80211: Resolve sk_refcnt/sk_wmem_alloc issue in wifi ack path
There is a possible issue with the use, or lack thereof of sk_refcnt and sk_wmem_alloc in the wifi ack status functionality. Specifically if a socket were to request acknowledgements, and the socket were to have sk_refcnt drop to 0 resulting in it waiting on sk_wmem_alloc to reach 0 it would be possible to have sock_queue_err_skb orphan the last buffer, resulting in __sk_free being called on the socket. After this the buffer is enqueued on sk_error_queue, however the queue has already been flushed resulting in at least a memory leak, if not a data corruption. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/skbuff.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index c9da77a95e2d..c8259ac38745 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -3628,9 +3628,14 @@ void skb_complete_wifi_ack(struct sk_buff *skb, bool acked)
serr->ee.ee_errno = ENOMSG;
serr->ee.ee_origin = SO_EE_ORIGIN_TXSTATUS;
+ /* take a reference to prevent skb_orphan() from freeing the socket */
+ sock_hold(sk);
+
err = sock_queue_err_skb(sk, skb);
if (err)
kfree_skb(skb);
+
+ sock_put(sk);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(skb_complete_wifi_ack);