From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mac80211: fix various problems in ibss code
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:48:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240480136.30082.177.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240479861.30082.176.camel@johannes.local> (sfid-20090423_114512_813708_5D5800AB)
There are a few problems in the IBSS code:
a) it tries to activate interfaces that are down after scanning
b) it crashes after scanning on an IBSS iface that isn't active
c) since the ssid_len is used as a flag, need to make it visible
only after all other settings are set, this helps protect
against b)
For b), we get a system crash:
wlan0: Creating new IBSS network, BSSID ce:f9:88:76:1e:4d
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<...>] ieee80211_sta_find_ibss+0x294/0x37d [mac80211]
Call Trace:
[<...>] ieee80211_ibss_notify_scan_completed+0x0/0x88 [mac80211]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
---
Sorry, other version was based against some RFC patches.
net/mac80211/ibss.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/ibss.c 2009-04-23 11:47:12.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/ibss.c 2009-04-23 11:48:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -788,8 +788,12 @@ void ieee80211_ibss_notify_scan_complete
mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx);
list_for_each_entry(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) {
+ if (!netif_running(sdata->dev))
+ continue;
if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
continue;
+ if (!sdata->u.ibss.ssid_len)
+ continue;
sdata->u.ibss.last_scan_completed = jiffies;
ieee80211_sta_find_ibss(sdata);
}
@@ -829,9 +833,6 @@ int ieee80211_ibss_join(struct ieee80211
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
- memcpy(sdata->u.ibss.ssid, params->ssid, IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN);
- sdata->u.ibss.ssid_len = params->ssid_len;
-
if (params->bssid) {
memcpy(sdata->u.ibss.bssid, params->bssid, ETH_ALEN);
sdata->u.ibss.fixed_bssid = true;
@@ -861,6 +862,17 @@ int ieee80211_ibss_join(struct ieee80211
sdata->u.ibss.state = IEEE80211_IBSS_MLME_SEARCH;
sdata->u.ibss.ibss_join_req = jiffies;
+ memcpy(sdata->u.ibss.ssid, params->ssid, IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN);
+
+ /*
+ * The ssid_len setting below is used to see whether
+ * we are active, and we need all other settings
+ * before that may get visible.
+ */
+ mb();
+
+ sdata->u.ibss.ssid_len = params->ssid_len;
+
set_bit(IEEE80211_IBSS_REQ_RUN, &sdata->u.ibss.request);
queue_work(sdata->local->hw.workqueue, &sdata->u.ibss.work);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-23 9:44 [PATCH] mac80211: fix various problems in ibss code Johannes Berg
2009-04-23 9:48 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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