mac80211: add skb length sanity checking
authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:28:40 +0000 (17:28 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:13:22 +0000 (20:13 -0400)
We just found a bug in zd1211rw where it would reject
packets in the ->tx() method but leave them modified,
which would cause retransmit attempts with completely
bogus skbs, eventually leading to a panic due to not
having enough headroom in those.

This patch adds a sanity check to mac80211 to catch
such driver mistakes; in this case we warn and drop
the skb.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/tx.c

index b909e4090e932d75140f2f46b1cac79aa05e8bc9..a0e00c6339cad0341e61a3a73d9e54d240805d49 100644 (file)
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ static int __ieee80211_tx(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 {
        struct sk_buff *skb = *skbp, *next;
        struct ieee80211_tx_info *info;
-       int ret;
+       int ret, len;
        bool fragm = false;
 
        local->mdev->trans_start = jiffies;
@@ -1125,7 +1125,12 @@ static int __ieee80211_tx(struct ieee80211_local *local,
                }
 
                next = skb->next;
+               len = skb->len;
                ret = local->ops->tx(local_to_hw(local), skb);
+               if (WARN_ON(ret != NETDEV_TX_OK && skb->len != len)) {
+                       dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+                       ret = NETDEV_TX_OK;
+               }
                if (ret != NETDEV_TX_OK)
                        return IEEE80211_TX_AGAIN;
                *skbp = skb = next;