From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757225Ab2ILXxH (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:53:07 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:49817 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933261Ab2ILXnh (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:43:37 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , Lorenzo Bianconi , "John W. Linville" Subject: [ 25/46] ath9k: fix decrypt_error initialization in ath_rx_tasklet() Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:39:15 -0700 Message-Id: <20120912233820.294509042@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3 In-Reply-To: <20120912233817.662663809@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20120912233817.662663809@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-2.1.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Lorenzo Bianconi commit e1352fde5682ab1bdd2a9e5d75c22d1fe210ef77 upstream. ath_rx_tasklet() calls ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess() and ath9k_rx_skb_postprocess() in a loop over the received frames. The decrypt_error flag is initialized to false just outside ath_rx_tasklet() loop. ath9k_rx_accept(), called by ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess(), only sets decrypt_error to true and never to false. Then ath_rx_tasklet() calls ath9k_rx_skb_postprocess() and passes decrypt_error to it. So, after a decryption error, in ath9k_rx_skb_postprocess(), we can have a leftover value from another processed frame. In that case, the frame will not be marked with RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED even if it is decrypted correctly. When using CCMP encryption this issue can lead to connection stuck because of CCMP PN corruption and a waste of CPU time since mac80211 tries to decrypt an already deciphered frame with ieee80211_aes_ccm_decrypt. Fix the issue initializing decrypt_error flag at the begging of the ath_rx_tasklet() loop. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c @@ -1697,7 +1697,6 @@ int ath_rx_tasklet(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ieee80211_hw *hw = sc->hw; struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr; int retval; - bool decrypt_error = false; struct ath_rx_status rs; enum ath9k_rx_qtype qtype; bool edma = !!(ah->caps.hw_caps & ATH9K_HW_CAP_EDMA); @@ -1719,6 +1718,7 @@ int ath_rx_tasklet(struct ath_softc *sc, tsf_lower = tsf & 0xffffffff; do { + bool decrypt_error = false; /* If handling rx interrupt and flush is in progress => exit */ if ((sc->sc_flags & SC_OP_RXFLUSH) && (flush == 0)) break;