linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13 142/212] cfg80211: free sme on connection failures

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Message-Id: <1403041506-13646-143-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:43:56 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@...el.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 142/212] cfg80211: free sme on connection failures

3.13.11.4 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>

commit c1fbb258846dfc425507a093922d2d001e54c3ea upstream.

cfg80211 is notified about connection failures by
__cfg80211_connect_result() call. However, this
function currently does not free cfg80211 sme.

This results in hanging connection attempts in some cases

e.g. when mac80211 authentication attempt is denied,
we have this function call:
ieee80211_rx_mgmt_auth() -> cfg80211_rx_mlme_mgmt() ->
cfg80211_process_auth() -> cfg80211_sme_rx_auth() ->
__cfg80211_connect_result()

but cfg80211_sme_free() is never get called.

Fixes: ceca7b712 ("cfg80211: separate internal SME implementation")
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 net/wireless/sme.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/sme.c b/net/wireless/sme.c
index d3c5bd7..7be3529 100644
--- a/net/wireless/sme.c
+++ b/net/wireless/sme.c
@@ -242,7 +242,6 @@ void cfg80211_conn_work(struct work_struct *work)
 					NULL, 0, NULL, 0,
 					WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE,
 					false, NULL);
-			cfg80211_sme_free(wdev);
 		}
 		wdev_unlock(wdev);
 	}
@@ -656,6 +655,7 @@ void __cfg80211_connect_result(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *bssid,
 			cfg80211_unhold_bss(bss_from_pub(bss));
 			cfg80211_put_bss(wdev->wiphy, bss);
 		}
+		cfg80211_sme_free(wdev);
 		return;
 	}
 
-- 
1.9.1

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