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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-11-29 00:25:20 (GMT)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-11-30 12:42:20 (GMT)
commit9caf03640279e64d0ba36539b42daa1b43a49486 (patch)
treecb094a4a577f61421d1b402e16f0e68f151d5726 /net/wireless/nl80211.c
parentb9a9ada14aab17f08c1d9735601f1097cdcfc6de (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-9caf03640279e64d0ba36539b42daa1b43a49486.tar.xz
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/nl80211.c')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c27
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 4a71977..f45706a 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -4808,6 +4808,7 @@ static int nl80211_send_bss(struct sk_buff *msg, struct netlink_callback *cb,
struct cfg80211_internal_bss *intbss)
{
struct cfg80211_bss *res = &intbss->pub;
+ const struct cfg80211_bss_ies *ies;
void *hdr;
struct nlattr *bss;
@@ -4828,16 +4829,24 @@ static int nl80211_send_bss(struct sk_buff *msg, struct netlink_callback *cb,
if (!bss)
goto nla_put_failure;
if ((!is_zero_ether_addr(res->bssid) &&
- nla_put(msg, NL80211_BSS_BSSID, ETH_ALEN, res->bssid)) ||
- (res->information_elements && res->len_information_elements &&
- nla_put(msg, NL80211_BSS_INFORMATION_ELEMENTS,
- res->len_information_elements,
- res->information_elements)) ||
- (res->beacon_ies && res->len_beacon_ies &&
- res->beacon_ies != res->information_elements &&
- nla_put(msg, NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES,
- res->len_beacon_ies, res->beacon_ies)))
+ nla_put(msg, NL80211_BSS_BSSID, ETH_ALEN, res->bssid)))
goto nla_put_failure;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ ies = rcu_dereference(res->ies);
+ if (ies && ies->len && nla_put(msg, NL80211_BSS_INFORMATION_ELEMENTS,
+ ies->len, ies->data)) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+ }
+ ies = rcu_dereference(res->beacon_ies);
+ if (ies && ies->len && nla_put(msg, NL80211_BSS_BEACON_IES,
+ ies->len, ies->data)) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
if (res->tsf &&
nla_put_u64(msg, NL80211_BSS_TSF, res->tsf))
goto nla_put_failure;