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authorGertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@kpnplanet.nl>2008-06-06 20:54:28 (GMT)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-06-14 16:17:57 (GMT)
commita26cbc650846b74dd7f46dd877fd30c472df14a1 (patch)
treea31d96161b36ea6be4d84f1ad23c056f4b3323b7 /drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
parent239c249d06b0c68ae06b10d9d6ad1f8e7f39452b (diff)
downloadlinux-a26cbc650846b74dd7f46dd877fd30c472df14a1.tar.xz
rt2x00: Fix double usage of skb->cb in USB RX path.
It is not safe to use the skb->cb area for both the rxd and skb_frame_desc data at the same time, while they occupy an overlapping piece of memory. This can lead to hard to trace crashes as pointers within skb_frame_desc are pointing into nowhere, or the rxd data is overwritten with non-sense. Fix it by copying the rxd to a small buffer on the stack. Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@kpnplanet.nl> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
index 1bfb68a..9851cef 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
@@ -1156,14 +1156,10 @@ static void rt2500usb_fill_rxdone(struct queue_entry *entry,
u32 word1;
/*
- * Copy descriptor to the skb->cb array, this has 2 benefits:
- * 1) Each descriptor word is 4 byte aligned.
- * 2) Descriptor is safe from moving of frame data in rt2x00usb.
+ * Copy descriptor to the skbdesc->desc buffer, making it safe from moving of
+ * frame data in rt2x00usb.
*/
- skbdesc->desc_len =
- min_t(u16, entry->queue->desc_size, sizeof(entry->skb->cb));
- memcpy(entry->skb->cb, rxd, skbdesc->desc_len);
- skbdesc->desc = entry->skb->cb;
+ memcpy(skbdesc->desc, rxd, skbdesc->desc_len);
rxd = (__le32 *)skbdesc->desc;
/*