netdev - [PATCH 10/19] staging: wfx: fix potential use-after-free

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Date:   Fri, 15 May 2020 10:33:16 +0200
From:   Jerome Pouiller <Jerome.Pouiller@...abs.com>
To:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jérôme Pouiller 
        <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>
Subject: [PATCH 10/19] staging: wfx: fix potential use-after-free

From: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>

wfx_tx_policy_put() use data from the skb. However, the call to
skb_pull() has just discarded them (even if the memory is in fact not
really discarded).

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>
---
 drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c b/drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c
index 314cc2743a2b..d01e679b0880 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c
@@ -494,8 +494,8 @@ static void wfx_skb_dtor(struct wfx_vif *wvif, struct sk_buff *skb)
 			      req->data_flags.fc_offset;
 
 	WARN_ON(!wvif);
-	skb_pull(skb, offset);
 	wfx_tx_policy_put(wvif, req->tx_flags.retry_policy_index);
+	skb_pull(skb, offset);
 	ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(wvif->wdev->hw, skb);
 }
 
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2.26.2