[PATCH] wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup

Balamurugan S quic_bselvara at quicinc.com
Thu May 18 00:10:46 PDT 2023


Currently 'ar' reference is not added in skb_cb.
Though this is generally not used during transmit completion
callbacks, on interface removal the remaining idr cleanup callback
uses the ar pointer from skb_cb from management txmgmt_idr. Hence fill them
during transmit call for proper usage to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Signed-off-by: Balamurugan S <quic_bselvara at quicinc.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
index d814d74bc168..a344211f5b53 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
@@ -4443,6 +4443,7 @@ static int ath12k_mac_mgmt_tx_wmi(struct ath12k *ar, struct ath12k_vif *arvif,
 	int buf_id;
 	int ret;
 
+	ATH12K_SKB_CB(skb)->ar = ar;
 	spin_lock_bh(&ar->txmgmt_idr_lock);
 	buf_id = idr_alloc(&ar->txmgmt_idr, skb, 0,
 			   ATH12K_TX_MGMT_NUM_PENDING_MAX, GFP_ATOMIC);

base-commit: 610b78b97bad8f3e77c27a15e9a03cbbb4109697
-- 
2.17.1




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