From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jeff@garzik.org, Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c: fix use-after-free
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:31:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070521133124.GB9621@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464E6B82.40607@redhat.com>
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:14:10AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> >> done:
> >> LEAVE();
> >>
> >> - skb->protocol = __constant_htons(0x0019); /* ETH_P_80211_RAW */
> >> -
> >
> > Except for this part...is this intentional?
>
> skb could have been freed by then. And, in libertas_upload_rx_packet(), skb->protocol
> is initialized by eth_type_trans(skb, priv->wlan_dev.netdev).
OK, I see that. Looks like Florin has reposted his patch, still
without this hunk. Would you like to submit a patch for this hunk?
Thanks,
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-18 16:50 [2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c: fix use-after-free Eugene Teo
2007-05-18 17:46 ` John W. Linville
2007-05-19 3:14 ` Eugene Teo
2007-05-21 13:31 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-05-21 14:30 ` Eugene Teo
2007-05-21 14:30 ` Eugene Teo
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