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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix tx->skb NULL pointer dereference

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On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 11:43 +0200, Yoni Divinsky wrote:
> In function ieee80211_tx_h_encrypt the var info was
> initialized from tx->skb, since the fucntion
> is called after the function ieee80211_tx_h_fragment
> tx->skb is not valid anymore.

Wow, that's quite a while ago, I guess nobody tests WAPI often? :-)

> @@ -1001,8 +1001,6 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_stats(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
>  static ieee80211_tx_result debug_noinline
>  ieee80211_tx_h_encrypt(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
>  {
> -	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(tx->skb);
> -
>  	if (!tx->key)
>  		return TX_CONTINUE;
>  
> @@ -1017,13 +1015,7 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_encrypt(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
>  	case WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_AES_CMAC:
>  		return ieee80211_crypto_aes_cmac_encrypt(tx);
>  	default:
> -		/* handle hw-only algorithm */
> -		if (info->control.hw_key) {
> -			ieee80211_tx_set_protected(tx);
> -			return TX_CONTINUE;
> -		}
> -		break;
> -
> +		return ieee80211_crypto_default_encrypt(tx);

How about
ieee80211_require_hw_crypto() or something like that?

> +ieee80211_tx_result
> +ieee80211_crypto_default_encrypt(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
> +{
> +	struct sk_buff *skb;
> +	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = NULL;
> +
> +	skb_queue_walk(&tx->skbs, skb) {
> +		info  = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
> +
> +		/* handle hw-only algorithm */
> +		if (info == NULL || !info->control.hw_key)
> +			return TX_DROP;

info == NULL can't happen

johannes

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