Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix invalid 'info' access in xmit-fast.

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2016-12-30 at 10:49 -0800, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> 
> ieee80211_xmit_fast assigns info from the passed-in
> skb, but then later it also checks for skb_shared(skb),
> and may create a new skb based on that check.
> 
> But, the code did not re-assign 'info', so it pointed into
> the old shared skb.  This leads to all sorts of problems,
> most obviously crashes since the new skb's info->hw_queue is not
> properly initialized.
> 
> Bug was seen by sending pktgen packets on a bridge that
> had an AP network interface in it.  hw-queue was out of
> range, which made it crash like this:
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
> at           (null)
> IP: [<ffffffffa0ad4672>] ieee80211_tx_frags+0x232/0x4c0 [mac80211]
> PGD 0
> Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> CPU: 0 PID: 1512 Comm: kpktgend_0 Tainted: G           O    4.7.10+
> #24
> Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by
> O.E.M./ChiefRiver, BIOS 4.6.5 06/07/2013
> task: ffff8802132f3a00 ti: ffff8800362ac000 task.ti: ffff8800362ac000
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0ad4672>]  [<ffffffffa0ad4672>]
> ieee80211_tx_frags+0x232/0x4c0 [mac80211]
> RSP: 0018:ffff8800362afa28  EFLAGS: 00010086
> RAX: ffff8802130a22c0 RBX: ffff8802130a13a0 RCX: ffff880035ef2200
> RDX: ffff880035ef2200 RSI: 0000000000000292 RDI: 0000000000000000
> RBP: ffff8800362afa90 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000000088 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff880035ef2200
> R13: ffff880035dabb90 R14: ffff8800362afb18 R15: 0000000000000cc0
> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88021e200000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000001e06000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
> Stack:
>  0000000000000292 ffff880035daa880 ffff8802130a0b20 ffff8800d4f01808
>  00ff8800362afaa0 ffff8800362afb18 ffff8802130a13c0 ffff88021e20db68
>  ffff880035daa880 ffff8800362afb18 ffff880035ef2200 ffff88020f6ca300
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffffa0ad9f63>] __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0xc13/0xc30
> [mac80211]
>  [<ffffffff8113d2c5>] ? find_busiest_group+0x35/0x4a0
>  [<ffffffffa0ad9f8b>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0xb/0x10 [mac80211]
>  [<ffffffff8177d40b>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9b/0x220
>  [<ffffffff817a3716>] sch_direct_xmit+0xd6/0x1a0
>  [<ffffffff8177da8e>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x3be/0x6c0
>  [<ffffffff81127f43>] ? finish_task_switch+0x73/0x1f0
>  [<ffffffff8177dd9d>] dev_queue_xmit+0xd/0x10
>  [<ffffffffa0b5fe85>] br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x75/0x140 [bridge]
>  [<ffffffffa0b5ffc9>] br_forward_finish+0x29/0xa0 [bridge]
>  [<ffffffff8116db83>] ? del_timer_sync+0x43/0x50
>  [<ffffffffa0b600a2>] __br_deliver+0x62/0x130 [bridge]
>  [<ffffffff81175937>] ? __getnstimeofday64+0x37/0xd0
>  [<ffffffff811759d9>] ? getnstimeofday64+0x9/0x30
>  [<ffffffffa0b605b6>] br_deliver+0x56/0x60 [bridge]
>  [<ffffffffa0b5d472>] br_dev_xmit+0x1c2/0x250 [bridge]
>  [<ffffffffa137aa1c>] pktgen_thread_worker+0x174c/0x2471 [pktgen]
>  [<ffffffff8185087a>] ? __schedule+0x30a/0x7c0
>  [<ffffffff811446e0>] ? wake_atomic_t_function+0x60/0x60
>  [<ffffffffa13792d0>] ? pktgen_rem_all_ifs+0x80/0x80 [pktgen]
>  [<ffffffff81121c14>] kthread+0xc4/0xe0
>  [<ffffffff818551df>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
>  [<ffffffff81121b50>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x180/0x180
> 
> Fix this by re-assigning info after creating new one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> ---
> 
> This patch is against 4.7.10+

And thus didn't apply - I've replaced it with my own patch which I'll
send out in a moment

johannes