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From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>, John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] hostap: Do not free priv until timer handler hasn't actually stopped using it
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:17:49 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1392380269.5384.36.camel@tkhai> (raw)

Function del_timer() does not guarantee that timer was really deleted.
If the timer handler is beeing executed at the moment, the function
does nothing. So, it's possible to use already freed memory in the handler:

[ref: Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl]

This was found using grep and compile-tested only. Please, consider
applying or something similar to it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
CC: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
CC: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c
index d36e252..5965255 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static void ap_free_sta(struct ap_data *ap, struct sta_info *sta)
 
 	if (!sta->ap && sta->u.sta.challenge)
 		kfree(sta->u.sta.challenge);
-	del_timer(&sta->timer);
+	del_timer_sync(&sta->timer);
 #endif /* PRISM2_NO_KERNEL_IEEE80211_MGMT */
 
 	kfree(sta);




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