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* [PATCH] cfg80211: fix double-free after changing network namespace
@ 2019-11-26 10:05 Stefan Bühler
  2019-11-26 10:12 ` Stefan Bühler
  2019-12-04  8:26 ` Stefan Bühler
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Bühler @ 2019-11-26 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Johannes Berg; +Cc: linux-wireless, netdev, Stefan Bühler

From: Stefan Bühler <source@stbuehler.de>

If wdev->wext.keys was initialized it didn't get reset to NULL on
unregister (and it doesn't get set in cfg80211_init_wdev either), but
wdev is reused if unregister was triggered through
cfg80211_switch_netns.

The next unregister (for whatever reason) will try to free
wdev->wext.keys again.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bühler <source@stbuehler.de>
---
 net/wireless/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index 350513744575..3e25229a059d 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -1102,6 +1102,7 @@ static void __cfg80211_unregister_wdev(struct wireless_dev *wdev, bool sync)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
 	kzfree(wdev->wext.keys);
+	wdev->wext.keys = NULL;
 #endif
 	/* only initialized if we have a netdev */
 	if (wdev->netdev)
-- 
2.24.0


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