This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mwifiex: fix memory corruption when unsetting multicast list
to the 3.10-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:
mwifiex-fix-memory-corruption-when-unsetting-multicast-list.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6390d88529835a8ad3563fe01a5da89fa52d6db2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:24:24 -0400
Subject: mwifiex: fix memory corruption when unsetting multicast list
From: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6390d88529835a8ad3563fe01a5da89fa52d6db2 upstream.
When trying to unset a previously-set multicast list (i.e. the new list
has 0 entries), mwifiex_set_multicast_list() was calling down to
mwifiex_request_set_multicast_list() while leaving
mcast_list.num_multicast_addr as an uninitialized value.
We were arriving at mwifiex_cmd_mac_multicast_adr() which would then
proceed to do an often huge memcpy of
mcast_list.num_multicast_addr*ETH_ALEN bytes, causing memory corruption
and hard to debug crashes.
Fix this by setting mcast_list.num_multicast_addr to 0 when no multicast
list is provided. Similarly, fix up the logic in
mwifiex_request_set_multicast_list() to unset the multicast list that
was previously sent to the hardware in such cases.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 5 ++---
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 18 ++++++++----------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
@@ -559,9 +559,8 @@ static void mwifiex_set_multicast_list(s
mcast_list.mode = MWIFIEX_ALL_MULTI_MODE;
} else {
mcast_list.mode = MWIFIEX_MULTICAST_MODE;
- if (netdev_mc_count(dev))
- mcast_list.num_multicast_addr =
- mwifiex_copy_mcast_addr(&mcast_list, dev);
+ mcast_list.num_multicast_addr =
+ mwifiex_copy_mcast_addr(&mcast_list, dev);
}
mwifiex_request_set_multicast_list(priv, &mcast_list);
}
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -104,16 +104,14 @@ int mwifiex_request_set_multicast_list(s
} else {
priv->curr_pkt_filter &=
~HostCmd_ACT_MAC_ALL_MULTICAST_ENABLE;
- if (mcast_list->num_multicast_addr) {
- dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
- "info: Set multicast list=%d\n",
- mcast_list->num_multicast_addr);
- /* Send multicast addresses to firmware */
- ret = mwifiex_send_cmd_async(priv,
- HostCmd_CMD_MAC_MULTICAST_ADR,
- HostCmd_ACT_GEN_SET, 0,
- mcast_list);
- }
+ dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
+ "info: Set multicast list=%d\n",
+ mcast_list->num_multicast_addr);
+ /* Send multicast addresses to firmware */
+ ret = mwifiex_send_cmd_async(priv,
+ HostCmd_CMD_MAC_MULTICAST_ADR,
+ HostCmd_ACT_GEN_SET, 0,
+ mcast_list);
}
}
dev_dbg(priv->adapter->dev,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dsd@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/mwifiex-fix-memory-corruption-when-unsetting-multicast-list.patch
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