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| author | Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> | 2010-10-14 12:45:30 -0700 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-10-15 15:57:42 -0400 |
| commit | 6cf9e995f91e5bbffb2bef85feef490e5b67605d (patch) | |
| tree | 11d458a9a447fadb4b85a90664d327055f67b66f /drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c | |
| parent | c1739eb3e61e160f124bc842c219011916f63068 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6cf9e995f91e5bbffb2bef85feef490e5b67605d.tar.gz lwn-6cf9e995f91e5bbffb2bef85feef490e5b67605d.zip | |
ath9k: Null out references to stale pointers.
This doesn't fix any problem that I'm aware of, but should
make it harder to add use-after-free type bugs in the
future.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c index af8fedda001b..4ed010d4ef96 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ static struct ath_buf *ath_beacon_generate(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, dma_unmap_single(sc->dev, bf->bf_buf_addr, skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE); dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); + bf->bf_buf_addr = 0; } /* Get a new beacon from mac80211 */ @@ -167,6 +168,7 @@ static struct ath_buf *ath_beacon_generate(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, if (unlikely(dma_mapping_error(sc->dev, bf->bf_buf_addr))) { dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); bf->bf_mpdu = NULL; + bf->bf_buf_addr = 0; ath_print(common, ATH_DBG_FATAL, "dma_mapping_error on beaconing\n"); return NULL; @@ -255,6 +257,7 @@ int ath_beacon_alloc(struct ath_wiphy *aphy, struct ieee80211_vif *vif) skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE); dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); bf->bf_mpdu = NULL; + bf->bf_buf_addr = 0; } /* NB: the beacon data buffer must be 32-bit aligned. */ @@ -300,6 +303,7 @@ int ath_beacon_alloc(struct ath_wiphy *aphy, struct ieee80211_vif *vif) if (unlikely(dma_mapping_error(sc->dev, bf->bf_buf_addr))) { dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); bf->bf_mpdu = NULL; + bf->bf_buf_addr = 0; ath_print(common, ATH_DBG_FATAL, "dma_mapping_error on beacon alloc\n"); return -ENOMEM; @@ -326,6 +330,7 @@ void ath_beacon_return(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_vif *avp) skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE); dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); bf->bf_mpdu = NULL; + bf->bf_buf_addr = 0; } list_add_tail(&bf->list, &sc->beacon.bbuf); |