mac80211: clear sequence/fragment number in QoS-null frames
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:46:53 +0000 (13:46 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 1 Apr 2014 23:58:57 +0000 (00:58 +0100)
commit 864a6040f395464003af8dd0d8ca86fed19866d4 upstream.

Avoid leaking data by sending uninitialized memory and setting an
invalid (non-zero) fragment number (the sequence number is ignored
anyway) by setting the seq_ctrl field to zero.

Fixes: 3f52b7e328c5 ("mac80211: mesh power save basics")
Fixes: ce662b44ce22 ("mac80211: send (QoS) Null if no buffered frames")
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: Drop change to mps_qos_null_get()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/mac80211/sta_info.c

index 1b4c53e..1914f5a 100644 (file)
@@ -1211,6 +1211,7 @@ static void ieee80211_send_null_response(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
        memcpy(nullfunc->addr1, sta->sta.addr, ETH_ALEN);
        memcpy(nullfunc->addr2, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);
        memcpy(nullfunc->addr3, sdata->vif.addr, ETH_ALEN);
+       nullfunc->seq_ctrl = 0;
 
        skb->priority = tid;
        skb_set_queue_mapping(skb, ieee802_1d_to_ac[tid]);