The driver does not count space of radiotap fields when allocating skb for
radiotap packet. This leads to kernel panic with the following call trace:
...
[67607.676067] [<c152f90f>] error_code+0x67/0x6c
[67607.676067] [<c142f831>] ? skb_put+0x91/0xa0
[67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ? ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8cf899b>] ipw_net_hard_start_xmit+0x8b/0x90 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8741c5a>] libipw_xmit+0x55a/0x980 [libipw]
[67607.676067] [<c143d3e8>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x218/0x4d0
...
This bug was found by VittGam.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43255
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
index 935120f..768bf61 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c
@@ -10472,7 +10472,7 @@ static void ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx(struct ipw_priv *priv,
} else
len = src->len;
- dst = alloc_skb(len + sizeof(*rt_hdr), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ dst = alloc_skb(len + sizeof(*rt_hdr) + sizeof(u16)*2, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!dst)
continue;
--
1.7.11.7