This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cfg80211: wext: clear sinfo struct before calling driver
to the 3.14-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:
cfg80211-wext-clear-sinfo-struct-before-calling-driver.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9c5a18a31b321f120efda412281bb9f610f84aa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 21:35:44 +0200
Subject: cfg80211: wext: clear sinfo struct before calling driver
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 9c5a18a31b321f120efda412281bb9f610f84aa0 upstream.
Until recently, mac80211 overwrote all the statistics it could
provide when getting called, but it now relies on the struct
having been zeroed by the caller. This was always the case in
nl80211, but wext used a static struct which could even cause
values from one device leak to another.
Using a static struct is OK (as even documented in a comment)
since the whole usage of this function and its return value is
always locked under RTNL. Not clearing the struct for calling
the driver has always been wrong though, since drivers were
free to only fill values they could report, so calling this
for one device and then for another would always have leaked
values from one to the other.
Fix this by initializing the structure in question before the
driver method call.
This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691
Reported-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Alexander Kaltsas <alexkaltsas@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/wireless/wext-compat.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/wireless/wext-compat.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-compat.c
@@ -1331,6 +1331,8 @@ static struct iw_statistics *cfg80211_wi
memcpy(bssid, wdev->current_bss->pub.bssid, ETH_ALEN);
wdev_unlock(wdev);
+ memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
+
if (rdev_get_station(rdev, dev, bssid, &sinfo))
return NULL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/cfg80211-wext-clear-sinfo-struct-before-calling-driver.patch
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