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authorEliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>2013-12-05 18:30:17 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-12-05 19:06:47 +0100
commit4a58e7c38443154fce1b47910e1a9184f65c5d72 (patch)
tree312b02efaf0de0522cca0eebfac2b5b861430d68 /include/uapi/linux
parenta2b70e833e189a4aefb2d3b668e3d7046dcc45c2 (diff)
cfg80211: don't "leak" uncompleted scans
___cfg80211_scan_done() can be called in some cases (e.g. on NETDEV_DOWN) before the low level driver notified scan completion (which is indicated by passing leak=true). Clearing rdev->scan_req in this case is buggy, as scan_done_wk might have already being queued/running (and can't be flushed as it takes rtnl()). If a new scan will be requested at this stage, the scan_done_wk will try freeing it (instead of the previous scan), and this will later result in a use after free. Simply remove the "leak" option, and replace it with a standard WARN_ON. An example backtrace after such crash: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffee5 pgd = c0004000 [fffffee5] *pgd=9fdf6821, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] SMP ARM PC is at cfg80211_scan_done+0x28/0xc4 [cfg80211] LR is at __ieee80211_scan_completed+0xe4/0x2dc [mac80211] [<bf0077b0>] (cfg80211_scan_done+0x28/0xc4 [cfg80211]) [<bf0973d4>] (__ieee80211_scan_completed+0xe4/0x2dc [mac80211]) [<bf0982cc>] (ieee80211_scan_work+0x94/0x4f0 [mac80211]) [<c005fd10>] (process_one_work+0x1b0/0x4a8) [<c0060404>] (worker_thread+0x138/0x37c) [<c0066d70>] (kthread+0xa4/0xb0) Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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