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From: Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	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: Sat, 19 May 2007 11:14:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464E6B82.40607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070518174623.GA3492@tuxdriver.com>

John W. Linville wrote:
> First, please send all wireless patches to
> linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, and be sure to CC me as well...thanks!
> 
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:50:31AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
>> libertas_upload_rx_packet() calls netif_rx() before returning, and it always return 0.
>> Also within libertas_upload_rx_packet(), it will initialize skb->protocol anyways.
>>
>> Spotted by the Coverity checker.
> 
> A nearly identical patch was posted by Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
> to netdev (also the wrong list) on Wednesday evening.

Nod. I wasn't subscribed to netdev list.

>>  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).

Eugene


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-19  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <464DD957.9040803@redhat.com>
2007-05-18 17:46 ` [2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c: fix use-after-free John W. Linville
2007-05-19  3:14   ` Eugene Teo [this message]
2007-05-21 13:31     ` John W. Linville
2007-05-21 14:30       ` Eugene Teo

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