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Subject[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 163/185] cfg80211: ignore netif running state when changing iftype
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3.16.7-ckt15 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>

commit 6cbfb1bb66e4e85da5db78e8ff429a85bd84ce64 upstream.

It was possible for mac80211 to be coerced into an
unexpected flow causing sdata union to become
corrupted. Station pointer was put into
sdata->u.vlan.sta memory location while it was
really master AP's sdata->u.ap.next_beacon. This
led to station entry being later freed as
next_beacon before __sta_info_flush() in
ieee80211_stop_ap() and a subsequent invalid
pointer dereference crash.

The problem was that ieee80211_ptr->use_4addr
wasn't cleared on interface type changes.

This could be reproduced with the following steps:

# host A and host B have just booted; no
# wpa_s/hostapd running; all vifs are down
host A> iw wlan0 set type station
host A> iw wlan0 set 4addr on
host A> printf 'interface=wlan0\nssid=4addrcrash\nchannel=1\nwds_sta=1' > /tmp/hconf
host A> hostapd -B /tmp/conf
host B> iw wlan0 set 4addr on
host B> ifconfig wlan0 up
host B> iw wlan0 connect -w hostAssid
host A> pkill hostapd
# host A crashed:

[ 127.928192] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000006c8
[ 127.929014] IP: [<ffffffff816f4f32>] __sta_info_flush+0xac/0x158
...
[ 127.934578] [<ffffffff8170789e>] ieee80211_stop_ap+0x139/0x26c
[ 127.934578] [<ffffffff8100498f>] ? dump_trace+0x279/0x28a
[ 127.934578] [<ffffffff816dc661>] __cfg80211_stop_ap+0x84/0x191
[ 127.934578] [<ffffffff816dc7ad>] cfg80211_stop_ap+0x3f/0x58
[ 127.934578] [<ffffffff816c5ad6>] nl80211_stop_ap+0x1b/0x1d
[ 127.934578] [<ffffffff815e53f8>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x259/0x2b5

Note: This isn't a revert of f8cdddb8d61d
("cfg80211: check iface combinations only when
iface is running") as far as functionality is
considered because b6a550156bc ("cfg80211/mac80211:
move more combination checks to mac80211") moved
the logic somewhere else already.

Fixes: f8cdddb8d61d ("cfg80211: check iface combinations only when iface is running")
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
net/wireless/util.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/util.c b/net/wireless/util.c
index 728f1c0dc70d..b5dd3c829b1a 100644
--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ int cfg80211_change_iface(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
ntype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT))
return -EBUSY;

- if (ntype != otype && netif_running(dev)) {
+ if (ntype != otype) {
dev->ieee80211_ptr->use_4addr = false;
dev->ieee80211_ptr->mesh_id_up_len = 0;
wdev_lock(dev->ieee80211_ptr);

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