From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> If a station is still marked as authorized, mark it as no longer so before removing its keys. This allows frames transmitted to it to be rejected, providing additional protection against leaking plain text data during the disconnection flow. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c index 0f5f40678885..e3572be307d6 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * Copyright 2006-2007 Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxx> * Copyright 2013-2014 Intel Mobile Communications GmbH * Copyright (C) 2015 - 2017 Intel Deutschland GmbH - * Copyright (C) 2018-2019 Intel Corporation + * Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Intel Corporation */ #include <linux/module.h> @@ -1049,6 +1049,11 @@ static void __sta_info_destroy_part2(struct sta_info *sta) might_sleep(); lockdep_assert_held(&local->sta_mtx); + while (sta->sta_state == IEEE80211_STA_AUTHORIZED) { + ret = sta_info_move_state(sta, IEEE80211_STA_ASSOC); + WARN_ON_ONCE(ret); + } + /* now keys can no longer be reached */ ieee80211_free_sta_keys(local, sta); -- 2.25.1