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mac802154: Fix memory corruption with global deferred transmit state. 

When transmitting a packet via a mac802154 driver that can sleep in
its transmit function, mac802154 defers the call to the driver's
transmit function to a per-device workqueue.

However, mac802154 uses a single global work_struct for this, which
means that if you have more than one registered mac802154 interface
in the system, and you transmit on more than one of them at the same
time, you'll very easily cause memory corruption.

This patch moves the deferred transmit processing state from global
variables to struct ieee802154_local, and this seems to fix the memory
corruption issue.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
steinar/wifi_calib_4_9_kernel
Lennert Buytenhek 2015-07-21 17:44:47 +03:00 committed by Marcel Holtmann
parent 8b44f0dd2f
commit c22ff7b4e7
3 changed files with 12 additions and 21 deletions
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4
net/mac802154/ieee802154_i.h
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@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ struct ieee802154_local {
struct tasklet_struct tasklet;
struct sk_buff_head skb_queue;
struct sk_buff *tx_skb;
struct work_struct tx_work;
};
enum {
@ -125,6 +128,7 @@ ieee802154_sdata_running(struct ieee802154_sub_if_data *sdata)
extern struct ieee802154_mlme_ops mac802154_mlme_wpan;
void ieee802154_rx(struct ieee802154_local *local, struct sk_buff *skb);
void ieee802154_xmit_worker(struct work_struct *work);
netdev_tx_t
ieee802154_monitor_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
netdev_tx_t

2
net/mac802154/main.c
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@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ ieee802154_alloc_hw(size_t priv_data_len, const struct ieee802154_ops *ops)
skb_queue_head_init(&local->skb_queue);
INIT_WORK(&local->tx_work, ieee802154_xmit_worker);
/* init supported flags with 802.15.4 default ranges */
phy->supported.max_minbe = 8;
phy->supported.min_maxbe = 3;

27
net/mac802154/tx.c
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@ -30,23 +30,11 @@
#include "ieee802154_i.h"
#include "driver-ops.h"
/* IEEE 802.15.4 transceivers can sleep during the xmit session, so process
* packets through the workqueue.
*/
struct ieee802154_xmit_cb {
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct work_struct work;
struct ieee802154_local *local;
};
static struct ieee802154_xmit_cb ieee802154_xmit_cb;
static void ieee802154_xmit_worker(struct work_struct *work)
void ieee802154_xmit_worker(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct ieee802154_xmit_cb *cb =
container_of(work, struct ieee802154_xmit_cb, work);
struct ieee802154_local *local = cb->local;
struct sk_buff *skb = cb->skb;
struct ieee802154_local *local =
container_of(work, struct ieee802154_local, tx_work);
struct sk_buff *skb = local->tx_skb;
struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
int res;
@ -106,11 +94,8 @@ ieee802154_tx(struct ieee802154_local *local, struct sk_buff *skb)
dev->stats.tx_packets++;
dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
} else {
INIT_WORK(&ieee802154_xmit_cb.work, ieee802154_xmit_worker);
ieee802154_xmit_cb.skb = skb;
ieee802154_xmit_cb.local = local;
queue_work(local->workqueue, &ieee802154_xmit_cb.work);
local->tx_skb = skb;
queue_work(local->workqueue, &local->tx_work);
}
return NETDEV_TX_OK;