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net/wireless: ipw2200: Fix panic occurring in ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx()
authorStanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:14:32 +0000 (14:14 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:10:21 +0000 (10:10 -0700)
commit bf11315eeda510ea4fc1a2bf972d8155d31d89b4 upstream.

The driver does not count space of radiotap fields when allocating skb for
radiotap packet. This leads to kernel panic with the following call trace:

...
[67607.676067] [<c152f90f>] error_code+0x67/0x6c
[67607.676067] [<c142f831>] ? skb_put+0x91/0xa0
[67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ? ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8cf899b>] ipw_net_hard_start_xmit+0x8b/0x90 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8741c5a>] libipw_xmit+0x55a/0x980 [libipw]
[67607.676067] [<c143d3e8>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x218/0x4d0
...

This bug was found by VittGam.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43255

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c

index 0df45914739489f5f7555423f9f647d8fdb7dff5..6d1754a4bc142ca0869554a859ac38f39e2958d1 100644 (file)
@@ -10479,7 +10479,7 @@ static void ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx(struct ipw_priv *priv,
                } else
                        len = src->len;
 
-               dst = alloc_skb(len + sizeof(*rt_hdr), GFP_ATOMIC);
+               dst = alloc_skb(len + sizeof(*rt_hdr) + sizeof(u16)*2, GFP_ATOMIC);
                if (!dst)
                        continue;