This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: always wind down STA state
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mac80211-always-wind-down-sta-state.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From dcd479e10a0510522a5d88b29b8f79ea3467d501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 14:17:11 +0200
Subject: mac80211: always wind down STA state
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
commit dcd479e10a0510522a5d88b29b8f79ea3467d501 upstream.
When (for example) an IBSS station is pre-moved to AUTHORIZED
before it's inserted, and then the insertion fails, we don't
clean up the fast RX/TX states that might already have been
created, since we don't go through all the state transitions
again on the way down.
Do that, if it hasn't been done already, when the station is
freed. I considered only freeing the fast TX/RX state there,
but we might add more state so it's more robust to wind down
the state properly.
Note that we warn if the station was ever inserted, it should
have been properly cleaned up in that case, and the driver
will probably not like things happening out of order.
Reported-by: syzbot+2e293dbd67de2836ba42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201009141710.7223b322a955.I95bd08b9ad0e039c034927cce0b75beea38e059b@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -242,6 +242,24 @@ struct sta_info *sta_info_get_by_idx(str
*/
void sta_info_free(struct ieee80211_local *local, struct sta_info *sta)
{
+ /*
+ * If we had used sta_info_pre_move_state() then we might not
+ * have gone through the state transitions down again, so do
+ * it here now (and warn if it's inserted).
+ *
+ * This will clear state such as fast TX/RX that may have been
+ * allocated during state transitions.
+ */
+ while (sta->sta_state > IEEE80211_STA_NONE) {
+ int ret;
+
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_INSERTED));
+
+ ret = sta_info_move_state(sta, sta->sta_state - 1);
+ if (WARN_ONCE(ret, "sta_info_move_state() returned %d\n", ret))
+ break;
+ }
+
if (sta->rate_ctrl)
rate_control_free_sta(sta);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/mac80211-always-wind-down-sta-state.patch
