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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix 11b fragmentation rx

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On 17 November 2014 13:29, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 12:27 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote:
>> After fragmentation reassembly was complete code
>> tried to dereference hdr pointer which pointed to
>> data of an sk_buff that has been freed.
>
> Curious. This bug has been around forever (since the introduction of
> mac80211). I wonder what changed that you *also* found it now - because
> we also found it recently!

I was puzzled at this as well. I hadn't tested fragmentation in a
while and when I did I hit this bug.

[..2 kernel compiles later..]

My hunch was right. Apparently this happens when I use my kernel
.config with some debug stuff enabled. In case you're interested:

 * http://pastebin.com/7shTYtFy -- good
 * http://pastebin.com/pxwdJ5hS -- panic


>> --- 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;
>
> This is technically correct, but useless. I already have this patch in
> my tree instead:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=b8fff407a180286aa683d543d878d98d9fc57b13

Oh. I've missed this. Thanks for pointing out :-)


Michał
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