mac80211: fix sta assignment

I just had the following:
WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c:574 iwlagn_tx_skb+0x1576/0x15f0 [iwlagn]()
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8105c5df>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
 [<ffffffff8105c63a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
 [<ffffffffa0290b46>] iwlagn_tx_skb+0x1576/0x15f0 [iwlagn]
 [<ffffffffa027076c>] iwl_mac_tx+0x5c/0x260 [iwlagn]
 [<ffffffffa01bdf5b>] __ieee80211_tx+0x10b/0x1a0 [mac80211]
 [<ffffffffa01bfb86>] ieee80211_tx_pending+0x186/0x2d0 [mac80211]
 [<ffffffff81062ea5>] tasklet_action+0x125/0x130
 [<ffffffff810634a6>] __do_softirq+0x106/0x270
 [<ffffffff8100c09c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Attempting to modify non-existing station 107

Note that 107 == 0x6b which is slab poison.

The reason is that mac80211 passed a freed station
pointer to mac80211, because as it happened iwlwifi
reset itself while mac80211 was disconnecting from
the network.

It turns out that we do take care to look up the
station pointer in ieee80211_tx_pending_skb, but
then don't use it, which obviously is a bug. Fix
this by removing the ieee80211_tx_h_sta handler
and assigning the station pointer directly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 698d4718b1a4b062ddaa77f83577a0dec74aee21..2f8182dc94a16ea98a63c0725ce3944cd9687255 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -575,17 +575,6 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_select_key(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
        return TX_CONTINUE;
 }
 
-static ieee80211_tx_result debug_noinline
-ieee80211_tx_h_sta(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
-{
-       struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(tx->skb);
-
-       if (tx->sta && tx->sta->uploaded)
-               info->control.sta = &tx->sta->sta;
-
-       return TX_CONTINUE;
-}
-
 static ieee80211_tx_result debug_noinline
 ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 {
@@ -1307,6 +1296,11 @@ static int __ieee80211_tx(struct ieee80211_local *local,
                        break;
                }
 
+               if (sta && sta->uploaded)
+                       info->control.sta = &sta->sta;
+               else
+                       info->control.sta = NULL;
+
                ret = drv_tx(local, skb);
                if (WARN_ON(ret != NETDEV_TX_OK && skb->len != len)) {
                        dev_kfree_skb(skb);
@@ -1346,7 +1340,6 @@ static int invoke_tx_handlers(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
        CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_check_assoc);
        CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_ps_buf);
        CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_select_key);
-       CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_sta);
        if (!(tx->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_HAS_RATE_CONTROL))
                CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl);