linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 014/206] mac80211: initialize fast-xmit info later

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:34:57 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 014/206] mac80211: initialize fast-xmit info later

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

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

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

commit 35f432a03e41d3bf08c51ede917f94e2288fbe8c upstream.

In ieee80211_xmit_fast(), 'info' is initialized to point to the skb
that's passed in, but that skb may later be replaced by a clone (if
it was shared), leading to an invalid pointer.

This can lead to use-after-free and also later crashes since the
real SKB's info->hw_queue doesn't get initialized properly.

Fix this by assigning info only later, when it's needed, after the
skb replacement (may have) happened.

Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 net/mac80211/tx.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -3262,7 +3262,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_xmit_fast(struct i
 	int extra_head = fast_tx->hdr_len - (ETH_HLEN - 2);
 	int hw_headroom = sdata->local->hw.extra_tx_headroom;
 	struct ethhdr eth;
-	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
+	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info;
 	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (void *)fast_tx->hdr;
 	struct ieee80211_tx_data tx;
 	ieee80211_tx_result r;
@@ -3326,6 +3326,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_xmit_fast(struct i
 	memcpy(skb->data + fast_tx->da_offs, eth.h_dest, ETH_ALEN);
 	memcpy(skb->data + fast_tx->sa_offs, eth.h_source, ETH_ALEN);
 
+	info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
 	memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info));
 	info->band = fast_tx->band;
 	info->control.vif = &sdata->vif;