This patch fixes a double free corruption in __cfg80211_scan_done: ================================================ BUG kmalloc-512: Object already free ------------------------------------------------ INFO: Allocated in load_elf_binary+0x18b/0x19af age=6 INFO: Freed in load_elf_binary+0x104e/0x19af age=5 INFO: Slab 0xffffea0001bae4c0 objects=14 used=7 INFO: Object 0xffff88007e8a9918 @offset=6424 fp=0xffff88007e8a9488 Bytes b4 0xffff88007e8a9908: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 5a [...] Pid: 28705, comm: rmmod Tainted: P C 2.6.31-rc2-wl #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810da9f4>] print_trailer+0x14e/0x16e [<ffffffff810daa56>] object_err+0x42/0x61 [<ffffffff810dbcd9>] __slab_free+0x2af/0x396 [<ffffffffa0ec9694>] ? wiphy_unregister+0x92/0x142 [cfg80211] [<ffffffff810dd5e3>] kfree+0x13c/0x17a [<ffffffffa0ec9694>] ? wiphy_unregister+0x92/0x142 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0ec9694>] wiphy_unregister+0x92/0x142 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0eed163>] ieee80211_unregister_hw+0xc8/0xff [mac80211] [<ffffffffa0f3fbc8>] p54_unregister_common+0x31/0x66 [p54common] [...] FIX kmalloc-512: Object at 0xffff88007e8a9918 not freed The code path which leads to the *funny* double free: request = rdev->scan_req; dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, request->ifidx); /* * the driver was unloaded recently and * therefore dev_get_by_index will return NULL! */ if (!dev) goto out; [...] rdev->scan_req = NULL; /* not executed... */ [...] out: kfree(request); Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxx> --- huh, no one spotted that bug before? --- diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c index 4f552c3..4ad8b4b 100644 --- a/net/wireless/scan.c +++ b/net/wireless/scan.c @@ -48,8 +48,6 @@ void __cfg80211_scan_done(struct work_struct *wk) else nl80211_send_scan_done(wiphy_to_dev(request->wiphy), dev); - wiphy_to_dev(request->wiphy)->scan_req = NULL; - #ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT if (!request->aborted) { memset(&wrqu, 0, sizeof(wrqu)); @@ -61,6 +59,7 @@ void __cfg80211_scan_done(struct work_struct *wk) dev_put(dev); out: + rdev->scan_req = NULL; cfg80211_unlock_rdev(rdev); kfree(request); } -- 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