3.2.70-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dzied...@tieto.com>
commit 47b4e1fc4972cc43a19121bc2608a60aef3bf216 upstream.
Remove checking tailroom when adding IV as it uses only
headroom, and move the check to the ICV generation that
actually needs the tailroom.
In other case I hit such warning and datapath don't work,
when testing:
- IBSS + WEP
- ath9k with hw crypt enabled
- IPv6 data (ping6)
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 13301 at net/mac80211/wep.c:102
ieee80211_wep_add_iv+0x129/0x190 [mac80211]()
[...]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff817bf491>] dump_stack+0x45/0x57
[<ffffffff8107746a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8a/0xc0
[<ffffffff8107755a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffffc09ae109>] ieee80211_wep_add_iv+0x129/0x190 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffc09ae7ab>] ieee80211_crypto_wep_encrypt+0x6b/0xd0 [mac80211]
[<ffffffffc09d3fb1>] invoke_tx_handlers+0xc51/0xf30 [mac80211]
[...]
Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dzied...@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: s/IEEE80211_WEP/WEP/]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
net/mac80211/wep.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/wep.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wep.c
@@ -97,8 +97,7 @@ static u8 *ieee80211_wep_add_iv(struct i
hdr->frame_control |= cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FCTL_PROTECTED);
- if (WARN_ON(skb_tailroom(skb) < WEP_ICV_LEN ||
- skb_headroom(skb) < WEP_IV_LEN))
+ if (WARN_ON(skb_headroom(skb) < WEP_IV_LEN))
return NULL;
hdrlen = ieee80211_hdrlen(hdr->frame_control);
@@ -160,6 +159,9 @@ int ieee80211_wep_encrypt(struct ieee802
size_t len;
u8 rc4key[3 + WLAN_KEY_LEN_WEP104];
+ if (WARN_ON(skb_tailroom(skb) < WEP_ICV_LEN))
+ return -1;
+
iv = ieee80211_wep_add_iv(local, skb, keylen, keyidx);
if (!iv)
return -1;
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