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mac80211: fix off-channel mgmt-tx uninitialized variable usage

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In the last change here, I neglected to update the cookie in one code
path: when a mgmt-tx has no real cookie sent to userspace as it doesn't
wait for a response, but is off-channel. The original code used the SKB
pointer as the cookie and always assigned the cookie to the TX SKB in
ieee80211_start_roc_work(), but my change turned this around and made
the code rely on a valid cookie being passed in.

Unfortunately, the off-channel no-wait TX path wasn't assigning one at
all, resulting in an uninitialized stack value being used. This wasn't
handed back to userspace as a cookie (since in the no-wait case there
isn't a cookie), but it was tested for non-zero to distinguish between
mgmt-tx and off-channel.

Fix this by assigning a dummy non-zero cookie unconditionally, and get
rid of a misleading comment and some dead code while at it. I'll clean
up the ACK SKB handling separately later.

Fixes: 3b79af973c ("mac80211: stop using pointers as userspace cookies")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Johannes Berg 2015-11-27 21:59:41 +01:00
parent 4e39ccac0d
commit c1df932c05
1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
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net/mac80211/cfg.c
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@ -3454,8 +3454,12 @@ static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
goto out_unlock;
}
} else {
/* for cookie below */
ack_skb = skb;
/* Assign a dummy non-zero cookie, it's not sent to
* userspace in this case but we rely on its value
* internally in the need_offchan case to distinguish
* mgmt-tx from remain-on-channel.
*/
*cookie = 0xffffffff;
}
if (!need_offchan) {