This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: fix txq queue related crashes to the 4.5-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-fix-txq-queue-related-crashes.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2a58d42c1e018ad514d4e23fd33fb2ded95d3ee6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:23:07 +0100 Subject: mac80211: fix txq queue related crashes From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx> commit 2a58d42c1e018ad514d4e23fd33fb2ded95d3ee6 upstream. The driver can access the queue simultanously while mac80211 tears down the interface. Without spinlock protection this could lead to corrupting sk_buff_head and subsequently to an invalid pointer dereference. Fixes: ba8c3d6f16a1 ("mac80211: add an intermediate software queue implementation") Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/iface.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -977,7 +977,10 @@ static void ieee80211_do_stop(struct iee if (sdata->vif.txq) { struct txq_info *txqi = to_txq_info(sdata->vif.txq); + spin_lock_bh(&txqi->queue.lock); ieee80211_purge_tx_queue(&local->hw, &txqi->queue); + spin_unlock_bh(&txqi->queue.lock); + atomic_set(&sdata->txqs_len[txqi->txq.ac], 0); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michal.kazior@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/mac80211-fix-unnecessary-frame-drops-in-mesh-fwding.patch queue-4.5/mac80211-fix-txq-queue-related-crashes.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html