linux-kernel - [053/121] iwlwifi: dvm: fix calling ieee80211_chswitch

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Message-ID: <lsq.1378608721.586600978@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 08 Sep 2013 03:52:01 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Emmanuel Grumbach" <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
	"Lukasz Jagiello" <jagiello.lukasz@...il.com>,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	"Stanislaw Gruszka" <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Subject: [053/121] iwlwifi: dvm: fix calling ieee80211_chswitch_done()
 with NULL

3.2.51-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>

commit 9186a1fd9ed190739423db84bc344d258ef3e3d7 upstream.

If channel switch is pending and we remove interface we can
crash like showed below due to passing NULL vif to mac80211:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffff8cc
IP: [<ffffffff8130924d>] strnlen+0xd/0x40
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8130ad2e>] string.isra.3+0x3e/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8130bf99>] vsnprintf+0x219/0x640
 [<ffffffff8130c481>] vscnprintf+0x11/0x30
 [<ffffffff81061585>] vprintk_emit+0x115/0x4f0
 [<ffffffff81657bd5>] printk+0x61/0x63
 [<ffffffffa048987f>] ieee80211_chswitch_done+0xaf/0xd0 [mac80211]
 [<ffffffffa04e7b34>] iwl_chswitch_done+0x34/0x40 [iwldvm]
 [<ffffffffa04f83c3>] iwlagn_commit_rxon+0x2a3/0xdc0 [iwldvm]
 [<ffffffffa04ebc50>] ? iwlagn_set_rxon_chain+0x180/0x2c0 [iwldvm]
 [<ffffffffa04e5e76>] iwl_set_mode+0x36/0x40 [iwldvm]
 [<ffffffffa04e5f0d>] iwlagn_mac_remove_interface+0x8d/0x1b0 [iwldvm]
 [<ffffffffa0459b3d>] ieee80211_do_stop+0x29d/0x7f0 [mac80211]

This is because we nulify ctx->vif in iwlagn_mac_remove_interface()
before calling some other functions that teardown interface. To fix
just check ctx->vif on iwl_chswitch_done(). We should not call
ieee80211_chswitch_done() as channel switch works were already canceled
by mac80211 in ieee80211_do_stop() -> ieee80211_mgd_stop().

Resolve:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979581

Reported-by: Lukasz Jagiello <jagiello.lukasz@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context, filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
@@ -808,8 +808,11 @@ void iwl_chswitch_done(struct iwl_priv *
 	if (test_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->shrd->status))
 		return;

-	if (test_and_clear_bit(STATUS_CHANNEL_SWITCH_PENDING,
+	if (!test_and_clear_bit(STATUS_CHANNEL_SWITCH_PENDING,
 				&priv->shrd->status))
+		return;
+
+	if (ctx->vif)
 		ieee80211_chswitch_done(ctx->vif, is_success);
 }

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