linux/net
Johannes Berg 5ac2e35030 mac80211: fix station/driver powersave race
It is currently possible to have a race due to the station PS
unblock work like this:
 * station goes to sleep with frames buffered in the driver
 * driver blocks wakeup
 * station wakes up again
 * driver flushes/returns frames, and unblocks, which schedules
   the unblock work
 * unblock work starts to run, and checks that the station is
   awake (i.e. that the WLAN_STA_PS_STA flag isn't set)
 * we process a received frame with PM=1, setting the flag again
 * ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_wakeup() runs, delivering all frames
   to the driver, and then clearing the WLAN_STA_PS_DRIVER and
   WLAN_STA_PS_STA flags

In this scenario, mac80211 will think that the station is awake,
while it really is asleep, and any TX'ed frames should be filtered
by the device (it will know that the station is sleeping) but then
passed to mac80211 again, which will not buffer it either as it
thinks the station is awake, and eventually the packets will be
dropped.

Fix this by moving the clearing of the flags to exactly where we
learn about the situation. This creates a problem of reordering,
so introduce another flag indicating that delivery is being done,
this new flag also queues frames and is cleared only while the
spinlock is held (which the queuing code also holds) so that any
concurrent delivery/TX is handled correctly.

Reported-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-06-23 11:05:25 +02:00
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9p A bunch of updates and cleanup within the transport layer, 2014-04-11 14:14:57 -07:00
802
8021q Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-05-24 00:32:30 -04:00
appletalk net: Split sk_no_check into sk_no_check_{rx,tx} 2014-05-23 16:28:53 -04:00
atm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
ax25 net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks. 2014-04-11 16:15:36 -04:00
batman-adv net: add __pskb_copy_fclone and pskb_copy_for_clone 2014-06-11 15:38:02 -07:00
bluetooth Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
bridge bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support 2014-06-12 11:00:24 -07:00
caif net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks. 2014-04-11 16:15:36 -04:00
can can: add hash based access to single EFF frame filters 2014-05-19 09:38:24 +02:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2014-06-12 23:06:23 -07:00
core net: Fix save software checksum complete 2014-06-15 01:00:49 -07:00
dcb net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages 2014-04-24 13:44:54 -04:00
dccp net: Eliminate no_check from protosw 2014-05-23 16:28:53 -04:00
decnet net: Split sk_no_check into sk_no_check_{rx,tx} 2014-05-23 16:28:53 -04:00
dns_resolver Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-06-11 16:02:55 -07:00
dsa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-05-24 00:32:30 -04:00
ethernet
hsr hsr: replace del_timer by del_timer_sync 2014-03-27 15:28:06 -04:00
ieee802154 6lowpan_rtnl: fix off by one while fragmentation 2014-06-02 10:39:42 -07:00
ipv4 udp: ipv4: do not waste time in __udp4_lib_mcast_demux_lookup 2014-06-13 15:39:24 -07:00
ipv6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-06-11 16:02:55 -07:00
ipx net: Split sk_no_check into sk_no_check_{rx,tx} 2014-05-23 16:28:53 -04:00
irda
iucv af_iucv: correct cleanup if listen backlog is full 2014-05-30 17:35:23 -07:00
key af_key: Replace comma with semicolon 2014-05-30 17:48:58 -07:00
l2tp l2tp: call udp{6}_set_csum 2014-06-04 22:46:38 -07:00
lapb
llc
mac80211 mac80211: fix station/driver powersave race 2014-06-23 11:05:25 +02:00
mac802154 mac802154: don't deliver packets to devices that are down 2014-06-11 12:10:19 -07:00
mpls gre: Call gso_make_checksum 2014-06-04 22:46:38 -07:00
netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
netlabel
netlink Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-06-03 23:32:12 -07:00
netrom net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks. 2014-04-11 16:15:36 -04:00
nfc net: add __pskb_copy_fclone and pskb_copy_for_clone 2014-06-11 15:38:02 -07:00
openvswitch vxlan: Add support for UDP checksums (v4 sending, v6 zero csums) 2014-06-04 22:46:39 -07:00
packet net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages 2014-04-24 13:44:54 -04:00
phonet net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages 2014-04-24 13:44:54 -04:00
rds Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
rfkill Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2014-05-22 13:58:36 -04:00
rose net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks. 2014-04-11 16:15:36 -04:00
rxrpc af_rxrpc: Fix XDR length check in rxrpc key demarshalling. 2014-05-16 15:24:47 -04:00
sched net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving 2014-06-11 15:50:59 -07:00
sctp net: sctp: fix permissions for rto_alpha and rto_beta knobs 2014-06-15 01:17:32 -07:00
sunrpc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
tipc net: add __pskb_copy_fclone and pskb_copy_for_clone 2014-06-11 15:38:02 -07:00
unix Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-06-12 14:27:40 -07:00
vmw_vsock vsock: Make transport the proto owner 2014-05-05 13:13:50 -04:00
wimax
wireless Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2014-05-29 12:55:38 -04:00
x25 net: Fix use after free by removing length arg from sk_data_ready callbacks. 2014-04-11 16:15:36 -04:00
xfrm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-06-03 23:32:12 -07:00
compat.c net/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types 2014-03-06 16:30:45 +01:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2014-04-03 13:05:42 -07:00
Makefile
nonet.c
socket.c net: use SYSCALL_DEFINEx for sys_recv 2014-04-16 15:15:05 -04:00
sysctl_net.c