[PATCH 1/5] ath11k: Change DMA_FROM_DEVICE to DMA_TO_DEVICE when map reinjected packets

Kalle Valo kvalo at codeaurora.org
Tue Sep 14 10:09:06 PDT 2021


Jouni Malinen <jouni at codeaurora.org> wrote:

> For fragmented packets, ath11k reassembles each fragment as a normal
> packet and then reinjects it into HW ring. In this case, the DMA
> direction should be DMA_TO_DEVICE, not DMA_FROM_DEVICE, otherwise
> invalid payload will be reinjected to HW and then delivered to host.
> What is more, since arbitrary memory could be allocated to the frame, we
> don't know what kind of data is contained in the buffer reinjected.
> Thus, as a bad result, private info may be leaked.
> 
> Note that this issue is only found on Intel platform.
> 
> Tested-on: QCA6390 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HST.1.0.1-01740-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1
> Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <bqiang at codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni at codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org>

Dropping due to the issue Peter found.

Patch set to Changes Requested.

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