From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
To: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e@gmail.com>,
ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCHv2] net: wireless: wcn36xx: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:09:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xa1tiov78kmp.fsf@mina86.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131201004715.11125.qmail@stuge.se>
If kmalloc fails wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process will attempt to dereference
a NULL pointer. There might be a better error recovery then just
printing an error, but printing an error message is better then the
current behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
On Sun, Dec 01 2013, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> + wcn36xx_err("Run out of memory while hnadling SMD_EVENT (%d)\n",
>> + msg_header->msg_type);
>
> Typo hnadling.
Fixed.
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
index de9eb2c..3663394 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
@@ -2041,13 +2041,20 @@ static void wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process(struct wcn36xx *wcn, void *buf, size_t len)
case WCN36XX_HAL_DELETE_STA_CONTEXT_IND:
mutex_lock(&wcn->hal_ind_mutex);
msg_ind = kmalloc(sizeof(*msg_ind), GFP_KERNEL);
- msg_ind->msg_len = len;
- msg_ind->msg = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
- memcpy(msg_ind->msg, buf, len);
- list_add_tail(&msg_ind->list, &wcn->hal_ind_queue);
- queue_work(wcn->hal_ind_wq, &wcn->hal_ind_work);
- wcn36xx_dbg(WCN36XX_DBG_HAL, "indication arrived\n");
+ if (msg_ind) {
+ msg_ind->msg_len = len;
+ msg_ind->msg = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ memcpy(msg_ind->msg, buf, len);
+ list_add_tail(&msg_ind->list, &wcn->hal_ind_queue);
+ queue_work(wcn->hal_ind_wq, &wcn->hal_ind_work);
+ wcn36xx_dbg(WCN36XX_DBG_HAL, "indication arrived\n");
+ }
mutex_unlock(&wcn->hal_ind_mutex);
+ if (msg_ind)
+ break;
+ /* FIXME: Do something smarter then just printing an error. */
+ wcn36xx_err("Run out of memory while handling SMD_EVENT (%d)\n",
+ msg_header->msg_type);
break;
default:
wcn36xx_err("SMD_EVENT (%d) not supported\n",
--
1.8.4.1
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-02 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-29 17:07 [PATCH] net: wireless: wcn36xx: fix potential NULL pointer dereference Michal Nazarewicz
2013-12-01 0:47 ` [ath9k-devel] " Peter Stuge
2013-12-02 13:09 ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
2013-12-05 8:41 ` [PATCHv2] " Eugene Krasnikov
2013-12-06 16:12 ` John W. Linville
2013-12-07 17:13 ` [PATCH] net: wirelesse: wcn36xx: pull allocation outside of critical section Michal Nazarewicz
2013-12-09 7:27 ` Eugene Krasnikov
2013-12-09 11:34 ` [PATCH] net: wirelesse: wcn36xx: check allocation and trim " Michal Nazarewicz
2013-12-11 15:52 ` John W. Linville
2013-12-11 16:43 ` [PATCH RESEND] net: wirelesse: wcn36xx: pull allocation outside of " Michal Nazarewicz
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