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* [PATCH] cfg80211: fix locking in action frame TX
@ 2010-08-09 13:52 Johannes Berg
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2010-08-09 13:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Linville; +Cc: linux-wireless, Jouni Malinen

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Accesses to "wdev->current_bss" must be
locked with the wdev lock, which action
frame transmission is missing.

Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.33+]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
 net/wireless/mlme.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- wireless-testing.orig/net/wireless/mlme.c	2010-08-09 15:23:36.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/wireless/mlme.c	2010-08-09 15:25:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -844,13 +844,19 @@ int cfg80211_mlme_action(struct cfg80211
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (mgmt->u.action.category != WLAN_CATEGORY_PUBLIC) {
 		/* Verify that we are associated with the destination AP */
+		wdev_lock(wdev);
+
 		if (!wdev->current_bss ||
 		    memcmp(wdev->current_bss->pub.bssid, mgmt->bssid,
 			   ETH_ALEN) != 0 ||
 		    (wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
 		     memcmp(wdev->current_bss->pub.bssid, mgmt->da,
-			    ETH_ALEN) != 0))
+			    ETH_ALEN) != 0)) {
+			wdev_unlock(wdev);
 			return -ENOTCONN;
+		}
+
+		wdev_unlock(wdev);
 	}
 
 	if (memcmp(mgmt->sa, dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN) != 0)



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