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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2017-01-02 11:19:29 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2017-01-02 11:28:25 +0100
commit35f432a03e41d3bf08c51ede917f94e2288fbe8c (patch)
tree67eed715e449fb7460f834c32edf723f2b4efa05 /kernel/Kconfig.hz
parenteb7903bb83cc1db31a9124d4cc8a1bddebe26e33 (diff)
mac80211: initialize fast-xmit 'info' later
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. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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