On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 14:37 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> This isn't a revert of f8cdddb8d61d ("cfg80211:
> check iface combinations only when iface is
> running") as far as functionality is considred
> because b6a550156bc ("cfg80211/mac80211: move more
> combination checks to mac80211") moved the logic
> somewhere else.
>
> It was possible for mac80211 to be coerced into an
> unexpected flow causing sdata union to become
> corrupted. Station pointer was put into
> sdata->u.vlan.sta memory location while it was
> really master AP's sdata->u.ap.next_beacon. This
> led to station entry being later freed as CSA
> beacon before __sta_info_flush() in
> ieee80211_stop_ap() and a subsequent invalid
> pointer dereference crash.
>
> The problem was observed with the following test
> steps:
>
> 1. prepare 2 devices
> 2. start hostapd AP with wds_sta=1
> 3. connect client with 4addr
> 4. disconnect
> 5. swap roles & connect
> 6. disconnect
> [ During AP (which was a client first)
> teardown kernel would crash. ]
That doesn't really explain how it crashes?
> +++ b/net/wireless/util.c
> @@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ int cfg80211_change_iface(struct
> cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
> ntype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT))
> return -EBUSY;
>
> - if (ntype != otype && netif_running(dev)) {
> + if (ntype != otype) {
> dev->ieee80211_ptr->use_4addr = false;
> dev->ieee80211_ptr->mesh_id_up_len = 0;
> wdev_lock(dev->ieee80211_ptr);
I don't think that makes much sense - the code within this block really
only makes sense when the interface *is* running, like disconnecting
etc. Doing that when it's *not* would be entirely unexpected to the
drivers, no?
johannes
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