ath9k: fix stale pointers potentially causing access to free'd skbs
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:31:11 +0000 (00:31 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:46:59 +0000 (16:46 +0000)
commitaba58442cc2198273c9815253030e83ba6f42edc
treec7002e4025aafa65049dee6b3f33a56e5d44b73e
parent0884603402e58608f62f17306aedb33b862d7b6d
ath9k: fix stale pointers potentially causing access to free'd skbs

commit 8c6e30936a7893a85f6222084f0f26aceb81137a upstream.

bf->bf_next is only while buffers are chained as part of an A-MPDU
in the tx queue. When a tid queue is flushed (e.g. on tearing down
an aggregation session), frames can be enqueued again as normal
transmission, without bf_next being cleared. This can lead to the
old pointer being dereferenced again later.

This patch might fix crashes and "Failed to stop TX DMA!" messages.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c