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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-11-29 01:25:20 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-11-30 13:42:20 +0100
commit9caf03640279e64d0ba36539b42daa1b43a49486 (patch)
treecb094a4a577f61421d1b402e16f0e68f151d5726 /net/wireless/wext-sme.c
parentmac80211: remove probe response temporary buffer allocation (diff)
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cfg80211: fix BSS struct IE access races
When a BSS struct is updated, the IEs are currently overwritten or freed. This can lead to races if some other CPU is accessing the BSS struct and using the IEs concurrently. Fix this by always allocating the IEs in a new struct that holds the data and length and protecting access to this new struct with RCU. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/wext-sme.c')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext-sme.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
index 873af63187c0..fb9622f6d99c 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
@@ -242,13 +242,17 @@ int cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwessid(struct net_device *dev,
wdev_lock(wdev);
if (wdev->current_bss) {
- const u8 *ie = ieee80211_bss_get_ie(&wdev->current_bss->pub,
- WLAN_EID_SSID);
+ const u8 *ie;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ ie = ieee80211_bss_get_ie(&wdev->current_bss->pub,
+ WLAN_EID_SSID);
if (ie) {
data->flags = 1;
data->length = ie[1];
memcpy(ssid, ie + 2, data->length);
}
+ rcu_read_unlock();
} else if (wdev->wext.connect.ssid && wdev->wext.connect.ssid_len) {
data->flags = 1;
data->length = wdev->wext.connect.ssid_len;