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| author | Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com> | 2012-10-15 14:14:32 +0000 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-10-15 14:45:52 -0400 |
| commit | bf11315eeda510ea4fc1a2bf972d8155d31d89b4 (patch) | |
| tree | d503c1b61cdecfa7c45ccc0a5b9a06e8bad00937 /drivers | |
| parent | 1fffa905adffbf0d3767fc978ef09afb830275eb (diff) | |
| download | lwn-bf11315eeda510ea4fc1a2bf972d8155d31d89b4.tar.gz lwn-bf11315eeda510ea4fc1a2bf972d8155d31d89b4.zip | |
net/wireless: ipw2200: Fix panic occurring in ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx()
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
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c index 935120fc8c93..768bf612533e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c @@ -10472,7 +10472,7 @@ 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; |