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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Don't request encryption for proble response
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:48:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214902086.7763.13.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807011045.13870.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (sfid-20080701_104125_115903_99BF2B9C)

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On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:45 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> Probe responses shouldn't be encrypted, and mac80211 doesn't
> set the crypto key accordingly. However it didn't set the
> IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT flag which means drivers
> could make an attempt to encrypt it, and causing a NULL
> pointer dereference when accessing the provided hw_key field.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

> ---
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> index 7b4d4d4..fd28cd8 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> @@ -2531,6 +2531,7 @@ static int ieee80211_sta_join_ibss(struct net_device *dev,
>  			control->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SHORT_PREAMBLE;
>  		control->antenna_sel_tx = local->hw.conf.antenna_sel_tx;
>  		control->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK;
> +		control->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT;
>  		control->control.retry_limit = 1;
>  
>  		ifsta->probe_resp = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> 

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01  8:45 [PATCH] mac80211: Don't request encryption for proble response Ivo van Doorn
2008-07-01  8:48 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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