linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 108/305] mac80211: fix off-channel mgmt-tx uninitialized variable usage

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Message-Id: <1452902519-2754-109-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:58:42 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 108/305] mac80211: fix off-channel mgmt-tx uninitialized variable usage

4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

commit c1df932c0574c13ab3ce72e969c9647ff3aaad68 upstream.

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: 3b79af973cf4 ("mac80211: stop using pointers as userspace cookies")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/cfg.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index bf7023f..5f8bbee 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -3439,8 +3439,12 @@ 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) {
-- 
1.9.1