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authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>2014-09-10 18:05:42 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-09-12 17:51:25 -0400
commitbf7fa551e0ce507b82935055f4b4aa229be73eeb (patch)
tree88068940307b6369cc1f6a2b346f6a070949f4bd /kernel/uid16.c
parentcab41c47d92851de71c74b1a7bdbf0fadf6ae4ba (diff)
mac80211: Resolve sk_refcnt/sk_wmem_alloc issue in wifi ack path
There is a possible issue with the use, or lack thereof of sk_refcnt and sk_wmem_alloc in the wifi ack status functionality. Specifically if a socket were to request acknowledgements, and the socket were to have sk_refcnt drop to 0 resulting in it waiting on sk_wmem_alloc to reach 0 it would be possible to have sock_queue_err_skb orphan the last buffer, resulting in __sk_free being called on the socket. After this the buffer is enqueued on sk_error_queue, however the queue has already been flushed resulting in at least a memory leak, if not a data corruption. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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