linux-wireless.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Double 'put' of bss in mac80211/mlme.c?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:38:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BBA983.5090704@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51BBA888.7030309@candelatech.com>

On 06/14/2013 04:34 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> Looks like an easy way to leak ies would be to mess up the
> ref counting on bss objects.
>
> While looking at such code, I found this in mac80211/mlme.c
>
> The destroy_assoc_data does a put_bss, and then it is put again
> directly.  Is this on purpose, or would this effectively cause
> a double-free?
>
>          if (!ieee80211_assoc_success(sdata, *bss, mgmt, len)) {
>              /* oops -- internal error -- send timeout for now */
>              ieee80211_destroy_assoc_data(sdata, false);
>              cfg80211_put_bss(sdata->local->hw.wiphy, *bss);
>              return RX_MGMT_CFG80211_ASSOC_TIMEOUT;
>          }
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>

Gah, nevermind...one is assoc_data->bss, the other is auth_data->bss.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-14 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-14 23:34 Double 'put' of bss in mac80211/mlme.c? Ben Greear
2013-06-14 23:38 ` Ben Greear [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=51BBA983.5090704@candelatech.com \
    --to=greearb@candelatech.com \
    --cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).