From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> The SSID pointer is pointing to RCU protected data, so we need to have it under rcu_read_lock() for the entire use. Fix this. Fixes: 0b8fb8235be8 ("cfg80211: Parsing of Multiple BSSID information in scanning") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/scan.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c index 11c68b159324..adc0d14cfd86 100644 --- a/net/wireless/scan.c +++ b/net/wireless/scan.c @@ -418,14 +418,17 @@ cfg80211_add_nontrans_list(struct cfg80211_bss *trans_bss, } ssid_len = ssid[1]; ssid = ssid + 2; - rcu_read_unlock(); /* check if nontrans_bss is in the list */ list_for_each_entry(bss, &trans_bss->nontrans_list, nontrans_list) { - if (is_bss(bss, nontrans_bss->bssid, ssid, ssid_len)) + if (is_bss(bss, nontrans_bss->bssid, ssid, ssid_len)) { + rcu_read_unlock(); return 0; + } } + rcu_read_unlock(); + /* add to the list */ list_add_tail(&nontrans_bss->nontrans_list, &trans_bss->nontrans_list); return 0; -- 2.31.1