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authorPetr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>2011-03-27 15:31:26 +0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-03-28 23:42:02 +0400
commit1f951a7f8ba05192291f781ef99a892697e47d62 (patch)
tree88ff9259029103301e54de42be6deef69bd59ec2 /net
parentf62d816fc4324afbb7cf90110c70b6a14139b225 (diff)
downloadlinux-1f951a7f8ba05192291f781ef99a892697e47d62.tar.xz
mac80211: fix NULL pointer dereference in ieee80211_key_alloc()
The ieee80211_key struct can be kfree()d several times in the function, for example if some of the key setup functions fails beforehand, but there's no check if the struct is still valid before we call memcpy() and INIT_LIST_HEAD() on it. In some cases (like it was in my case), if there's missing aes-generic module it could lead to the following kernel OOPS: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000018c .... PC is at memcpy+0x80/0x29c ... Backtrace: [<bf11c5e4>] (ieee80211_key_alloc+0x0/0x234 [mac80211]) from [<bf1148b4>] (ieee80211_add_key+0x70/0x12c [mac80211]) [<bf114844>] (ieee80211_add_key+0x0/0x12c [mac80211]) from [<bf070cc0>] (__cfg80211_set_encryption+0x2a8/0x464 [cfg80211]) Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/key.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/key.c b/net/mac80211/key.c
index 8c02469b7176..09cf1f28c12b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/key.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/key.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ struct ieee80211_key *ieee80211_key_alloc(u32 cipher, int idx, size_t key_len,
if (IS_ERR(key->u.ccmp.tfm)) {
err = PTR_ERR(key->u.ccmp.tfm);
kfree(key);
- key = ERR_PTR(err);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
}
break;
case WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_AES_CMAC:
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ struct ieee80211_key *ieee80211_key_alloc(u32 cipher, int idx, size_t key_len,
if (IS_ERR(key->u.aes_cmac.tfm)) {
err = PTR_ERR(key->u.aes_cmac.tfm);
kfree(key);
- key = ERR_PTR(err);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
}
break;
}