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authorChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>2009-07-19 05:05:37 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-07-21 12:07:44 -0400
commit9e81eccf199d910e5ea8db377a43478e4eccd033 (patch)
treec425a97da799df89255b13314e4dd96ec40419db /net
parente56f0975360369347725c49654ecfe3792710429 (diff)
cfg80211: double free in __cfg80211_scan_done
This patch fixes a double free corruption in __cfg80211_scan_done: ================================================ BUG kmalloc-512: Object already free ------------------------------------------------ INFO: Allocated in load_elf_binary+0x18b/0x19af age=6 INFO: Freed in load_elf_binary+0x104e/0x19af age=5 INFO: Slab 0xffffea0001bae4c0 objects=14 used=7 INFO: Object 0xffff88007e8a9918 @offset=6424 fp=0xffff88007e8a9488 Bytes b4 0xffff88007e8a9908: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 5a [...] Pid: 28705, comm: rmmod Tainted: P C 2.6.31-rc2-wl #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810da9f4>] print_trailer+0x14e/0x16e [<ffffffff810daa56>] object_err+0x42/0x61 [<ffffffff810dbcd9>] __slab_free+0x2af/0x396 [<ffffffffa0ec9694>] ? wiphy_unregister+0x92/0x142 [cfg80211] [<ffffffff810dd5e3>] kfree+0x13c/0x17a [<ffffffffa0ec9694>] ? wiphy_unregister+0x92/0x142 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0ec9694>] wiphy_unregister+0x92/0x142 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa0eed163>] ieee80211_unregister_hw+0xc8/0xff [mac80211] [<ffffffffa0f3fbc8>] p54_unregister_common+0x31/0x66 [p54common] [...] FIX kmalloc-512: Object at 0xffff88007e8a9918 not freed The code path which leads to the *funny* double free: request = rdev->scan_req; dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, request->ifidx); /* * the driver was unloaded recently and * therefore dev_get_by_index will return NULL! */ if (!dev) goto out; [...] rdev->scan_req = NULL; /* not executed... */ [...] out: kfree(request); Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/scan.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index f8e71b30000..9271118e1fc 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ void cfg80211_scan_done(struct cfg80211_scan_request *request, bool aborted)
else
nl80211_send_scan_done(wiphy_to_dev(request->wiphy), dev);
- wiphy_to_dev(request->wiphy)->scan_req = NULL;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT
if (!aborted) {
memset(&wrqu, 0, sizeof(wrqu));
@@ -48,6 +46,7 @@ void cfg80211_scan_done(struct cfg80211_scan_request *request, bool aborted)
dev_put(dev);
out:
+ wiphy_to_dev(request->wiphy)->scan_req = NULL;
kfree(request);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_scan_done);