b43: Fix locking FIXME in beacon update top half
Kalle Valo
kvalo at codeaurora.org
Thu Jan 29 00:30:34 PST 2015
> b43 has a FIXME about locking in the mac80211 set-beacon-int callback for a long time.
> As it turns out there actually is a tiny race window that could result in
> a use-after-free bug of the 'current_beacon' memory.
> Nobody ever reported this, so it probably never happened.
>
> Fix this by adding a spin lock that protects the current_beacon access.
> We must not be in atomic context while accessing hardware (due to SDIO),
> so the beacon update bottom half has to clone the skb and release the lock
> before writing it to hardware.
>
> Let's all hope that this stops the troll who is trying to submit incorrect
> fixes for this issue repeatedly.
> And let's hope that I'm not a troll, too, who just hides even more evil code
> in an even more complex attempt to fix the issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <m at bues.ch>
> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.
Kalle Valo
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