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Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: fix an oops in several failure paths in key allocation

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On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 12:13 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch fixes an oops in several failure paths in key allocation. This
> Oops occurs when freeing a key that has not been linked yet, so the
> key->sdata is not set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  net/mac80211/key.c |    9 +++++++++
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/key.c b/net/mac80211/key.c
> index d4893bd..6597c77 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/key.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/key.c
> @@ -387,6 +387,15 @@ void ieee80211_key_free(struct ieee80211_key *key)
>  	if (!key)
>  		return;
>  
> +	if (!key->sdata) {
> +		/* The key has not been linked yet, simply free it
> +		 * and don't Oops */
> +		if (key->conf.alg == ALG_CCMP)
> +			ieee80211_aes_key_free(key->u.ccmp.tfm);
> +		kfree(key);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&key->sdata->local->key_lock, flags);
>  	__ieee80211_key_free(key);
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&key->sdata->local->key_lock, flags);

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