After fragmentation reassembly was complete code tried to dereference hdr pointer which pointed to data of an sk_buff that has been freed. This fixes possible paging errors and kernel panics with fragmented rx: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880019fd5dc0 IP: [<ffffffff8188f3a0>] ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x610/0x1f60 PGD 2f68067 PUD 2f69067 PMD 1fd15067 PTE 8000000019fd5060 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.17.0-wl-ath+ #536 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 task: ffff88001e752620 ti: ffff88001e774000 task.ti: ffff88001e774000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8188f3a0>] [<ffffffff8188f3a0>] ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x610/0x1f60 RSP: 0018:ffff88001fa83978 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: ffff88001a41a290 RBX: ffff88001fa83b08 RCX: ffff88001fa83b08 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffff88001e752e70 RDI: 0000000000000296 RBP: ffff88001fa83a30 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88001fa83a60 R13: ffff88001fa839b8 R14: ffff880019eb8df8 R15: ffff880019fd5dbc FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001fa80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffff880019fd5dc0 CR3: 000000000010c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Stack: ffff88001e752620 ffffffff82831b20 ffff88001a41a290 ffff88001fa83b08 ffff880019fd5dd6 ffff880019eb8e10 ffff88001fa83a60 ffff88001fa839bd ffffffff81092bab ffff88001e777f58 ffff88001fa839d8 ffffffff810d0786 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff81092bab>] ? __lock_acquire+0x41b/0x1af0 [<ffffffff810d0786>] ? is_module_text_address+0x16/0x30 [<ffffffff81891138>] ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x448/0xa30 [<ffffffff818917ef>] ? ieee80211_rx+0xcf/0x8d0 [<ffffffff81891a2d>] ieee80211_rx+0x30d/0x8d0 [<ffffffff818917ef>] ? ieee80211_rx+0xcf/0x8d0 [<ffffffffa001d0cc>] ath10k_process_rx+0x23c/0x340 [ath10k_core] [<ffffffffa001d217>] ath10k_htt_rx_h_deliver+0x47/0x90 [ath10k_core] [<ffffffffa001deee>] ath10k_htt_rx_in_ord_ind+0x67e/0x8f0 [ath10k_core] [<ffffffffa001ee7e>] ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task+0x5de/0x770 [ath10k_core] [<ffffffff8109188d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff818e9245>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x35/0x40 [<ffffffffa005c3e8>] ? ath10k_ce_per_engine_service+0x98/0xb0 [ath10k_pci] [<ffffffff810565de>] ? tasklet_action+0x4e/0x130 [<ffffffff81056674>] tasklet_action+0xe4/0x130 [<ffffffff81056ae6>] __do_softirq+0x126/0x300 [<ffffffff81056fd5>] irq_exit+0xb5/0xc0 [<ffffffff818ecaf8>] do_IRQ+0x58/0xf0 [<ffffffff818eaa72>] common_interrupt+0x72/0x72 <EOI> [<ffffffff81042086>] ? native_safe_halt+0x6/0x10 [<ffffffff8100cd19>] default_idle+0x29/0xe0 [<ffffffff8100d6ff>] arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20 [<ffffffff8108cf7a>] cpu_startup_entry+0x29a/0x390 [<ffffffff810c2723>] ? clockevents_register_device+0xe3/0x140 [<ffffffff810346fa>] start_secondary+0x19a/0x200 Code: 66 25 00 04 66 89 85 78 ff ff ff 0f 85 6e 07 00 00 45 85 d2 0f 85 65 07 00 00 48 8b 43 18 48 85 c0 74 08 48 83 80 f8 03 00 00 01 <41> f6 47 04 01 0f 84 5c 03 00 00 48 8b 43 08 83 80 a4 18 00 00 RIP [<ffffffff8188f3a0>] ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x610/0x1f60 RSP <ffff88001fa83978> CR2: ffff880019fd5dc0 ---[ end trace d48ea0fa78f20b35 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Kernel Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff) ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt (gdb) l * ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x610 0xffffffff8188f3a0 is in ieee80211_rx_handlers (/devel/src/linux/net/mac80211/rx.c:1778). 1773 status->rx_flags |= IEEE80211_RX_FRAGMENTED; 1774 1775 out: 1776 if (rx->sta) 1777 rx->sta->rx_packets++; 1778 if (is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1)) 1779 rx->local->dot11MulticastReceivedFrameCount++; 1780 else 1781 ieee80211_led_rx(rx->local); 1782 return RX_CONTINUE; Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/rx.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index 0f4297e..8802547 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c @@ -1854,6 +1854,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_defragment(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx) /* Complete frame has been reassembled - process it now */ status = IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(rx->skb); status->rx_flags |= IEEE80211_RX_FRAGMENTED; + hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)rx->skb->data; out: if (rx->sta) -- 1.8.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html